The Ruim sensory enhancing headset will allow blind or visually impaired people to experience their environment using their other senses.
Communicating through haptic vibrations and temperature fluctuations, this headset creates a new platform with potential application in fields such as medical (as an assistive device) and gaming (enhanced virtual reality).
A Peltier module warms as well as cools. This allows a wide vocabulary in which the device communicates information about the environment to the wearer.
Warm colours will cause the module to heat up. Colder colours are translated into cool temperatures on the skin in the direction of the object. Turning colour into a physical sensation.
2017
