People a vision impaired or attempts to be blind. Today on tech night some of the latest innovations making it easier to help people decide problems navigates a complex well if you want to grab a basket theyre just laid out there for you died out. And even enjoy office again through a gentle touch i mean for so many people that ive met that were really crucial to this and later as populations age and then patents become more prevalent a new study to determine what technology is needed in the future to ensure that people can live independently hi im thankful and happy we really need to figure out ways to better help people as they age as they develop chronic conditions and do it in a way that optimizes or call your wife a scientific into the crystal ball of aging this is techno a show about innovations that can change lives were going to explore the intersection of heart and humanity and were doing it in a unique way this is a show about science by scientists. New york city. An intersection similar to many around the world city streets often a confusing maze of speeding vehicles to live moving masses of people who assume the time use the navigating side routes traffic lights cross works in construction sites im challenging for most people but the complexity of this intersection increases dramatically for those with limited visibility for those who have blind. Techno stuck to crystal reports that are getting a major metropolitan city is difficult no matter where you are but the visually impaired find it especially difficult now new technologies are being developed that can help even the playing. Technology really really useful at the same time its not Like Technology is just doing everything for me you know its helping need to do things myself 28 year old lindsay yes a lino of boston massachusetts visits new york city often blind since birth years of training enable her to navigate these busy streets im using a cane and its essentially a glorified you know stick but it does its job very well and new technology doesnt need to replace things but it can certainly in hand what im able to do 23rd street and 7th avenue is a new York City Department of transportation pilot intersection for new technology in 2011 the city installed the 1st a. P. S. Pedestrian signal here today of the 12460 intersections controlled by traffic lights in new york city 209 now have a. P. s and the number increases by 75 each year. The beeping boxes are helpful especially when you have an intersection thats a little more dicey it tells me that ok the light did just change so i can go i should go now as long as it sounds say if these devices while improving the safety aspect of crossing streets are currently in need of an innovative update re orks city discovered that after they had installed these devices that people people were still having difficulty crossing the street because of the increased complexity with the introduction of dedicated bike and bus lanes so they came up with the idea of actually adding a map to the sari in this intersection a printed tactile diagram is being tested at the excessive book the test room signal recently some new innovations in printing have made it possible to create very low cost talk trial graphic royal songs that are durable enough to put outside lindsey demonstrates the tactile math to passer by george this is also blind so if you feel the braille at the very top it says west when he 1st street so thats the street that would be crossing this this line is showing the direction of travel these arrows youre a lanes of traffic so you have us believe you have the waynes of traffic where the cars are going you know from your left youre right theres a why here for 0. 00 you are here yeah right now you know what to expect in the past 3 days yes ok yeah steve landau says this is the 1st step in making Traffic Signals more interactive future generations of science he says will actually have a verbal function and itll say car or bus or cross walk so by adding speech. And interactive aspects of this. We can really make them universally accessible i think the most exciting potential is technology that takes into account the skill that a person already has and then fills in the gaps and also to do different kinds of things that maybe arent as easy for me to do now. The. Next year lead agrees blind since age 8 today at 33. 00 hes a u. S. Paralympic athletic champion who currently holds the long jump world record. While his athletic abilities put him at the top of his sport some complex and even common tasks sighted people take for granted often challenge him we met lex at a supermarket in ocean beach california how difficult is it for you to navigate with someone like you would take take for granted as a mundane task like shopping i think is one of those things where a lot of times our stores will have a. Customer service area so i would go to that that would require me to have a specific list of items and there are those times where. You want to learn more about the product you want to learn what types of ingredients are in them and maybe you want to make a better selection i mean our fleet so you know a lot of times on very particular about what goes into my body recently lexus sidestep the help desk for something decidedly more high tech today he shopping with ira i like thanks for calling i wrote this is very. Actually. The Grocery Store. And interested in picking up a couple things what are you looking for today you know are interested in getting. So meadows. Into congress for our already so that might scare me your head around so i can take it. Ok so the cash registers are to the left the where the produce is your skin ready i see the Produce Market is to the right hand side of lex is not shopping alone hes connected in real time to an agent assistant who could be hundreds of miles away from him but his feeling exactly where he is. Is the manager the agent operations what does it mean to be an ira agent it means that we get to assist the blind with their day to day tasks and give them more independence and freedom so as sighted folks kind of take for granted just jumping in the car and running to the Grocery Store to pick up a simple item and getting back home now with the use of they can really incorporate that and just jump on Public Transportation or an hour and run to the Grocery Store with outside assistance its 2 humans one bed in the book one person sitting in front of a computer connected through technology and acting as an individual to do it back as to do an activity. You know experience something beautiful heres how the system works spark glasses with a built in camera is paired with an app on the users phone when they want to systems they press a button and via Cellular Service theyre connected to an agent who is currently using this technology are called explorers and agencies the video in real Time Streaming in from the glasses that the explorer is wearing their g. P. S. Location and a full profile on the user back in the supermarket lexus navigating the produce area theres a child with a car hes stocking the bananas he just goes so if you wanted to step forward here. What car is going to be here on the right and then were directly in front of the right ok so i see. Her potatoes and i see what i believe are a cucumber. If you want to extend a hand youll feel. What seat there will be potatoes on the top and then the 2nd row down i will be cucumbers so i can see your hand to the camera if you dont mind till to your chin to your chest slightly so the video drops down yeah ok perfect youve got a cucumber in your hand to me teaching like how to tuck their chin to their chest which is not you know its a kind of an awkward movement for someone who doesnt have vision is to look down to the floor and look up to the ceiling so then you really build that report and that teamwork thats so interesting that those movements i would take for granted because thats how i explore my space wouldnt really be necessary yeah its interesting because when you say look down like to them theyre like well i am looking down but if you say tuck your chin to your chest that gives it more that more just that little bit more description really tells them exactly how far to look down if youll take your to chin slightly down go down one row. Yes and thats the caesar supreme but your fingers. Thank you so its got a good crew times to correcting in there and a permanent cheese as well. You know. Are you still interested in a tomato. Please ok lets take a peek around so typically tomatoes arent refrigerated so if you want to turn it yeah do a full turn around the trees over all i want to eat ok so you dont see any tomatoes here and on the other side were on the end so lets head towards the right hand side. And if youll pas here and turn your skin your head ok great i see tomatoes on the high art thats on your left hand side so if you were to move a couple of scotch theyre actually at the very end this case here the tomatoes are on your right hand side so well now that youre out there on the left hand side. Down this one so pas here and i believe if you want to extend your hand now directly in front of you. These are either apples or tomatoes. Or. This feels like a tomato ok and if youll just tuck your chin slightly yep that sure is a tomato so its a red meat oh i dont see. Welts or colds and while Grocery Shopping is just one small task in lexs life he uses this technology for more complex situations like traveling through airports or visiting major cities for the 1st time so for me there are those times where you want to have that specific information you want as many details as possible and so you know for example i went to vegas was like you know what i want to go. To the streets of. And. You know they were able to navigate me around and Walking Around on the street it was really is an amazing amazing experience because i just felt really empowered. Before d we do have thousands of people who are using this obvious explosives we want to. Pretty much into the hands of you know every block in the grand task since there is the cost to using this technology the subscription radio is from 89. 00 some. 329. 00 now on the higher and 29. 00 limit to use a service of the glasses for free. Is free they dont pay for the data. Usage and we also include insurance associated with the glasses. Because they are stevies the purple flowers and 3000 flowers a year and a couple of dried flowers as well as roses im not sure if theyre right. Already so if you want to move to the check out why. Around this flower stand so youll want to forward a few steps and then turned to the left. Well. Lets find everything. Else harvard were exploring the news for a new environments new read things that i. Havent seen in the sun so. Exploration process its amazing. We have that Technology Available to us this is a boon for point were right now in technology there is so much going to help people. Its phenomenal its way better than i was when i was younger meat lover dennis perowne since becoming blind later in life he gave up visiting museums until today a new scientist famously proposed that there were 9 ways that our brains help us to appreciate visual art but how do you appreciate a painting that you cant see the answer might be here at the San Diego Museum of art theyre taking an innovative approach to making art accessible to the visually impaired dennis is here to experience a masterpiece specially designed for the visually impaired. Museum associate curator Michael Brown describes the original were standing in front of one sanchez cotyledons masterpiece the still life with quince cabbage cucumber and melon it was painted in 1602 until late 0 in spain and it is a groundbreaking example of still life painting at the very earliest decorated of the of the 17th so what makes it so special this painting was a really pioneering depiction of a 3 dimensional allusions so hes using in 2 dimensions he is creating an imaginary tactile experience do you think its possible to. To give that same impression to someone the site able to visually see this painting absolutely because i think that that one of the one of the ways that we interact best with with the public and of of all different abilities is telling stories and the stories help to bring works of art to life and although we cant touch this painting itself we can touch the replica and filled with those stories understand it in 2014 we had this made so that people who can see this painting can still experience it so tell me how this rock because different from the real thing so 1st of all you can touch it right and when you look at the real thing youre going to want to touch it which is exactly what dennis perowne did for the 1st time today this craigs just. Like that old d. Patient like. Find to be a stand tough way. Notice those the slope left from the lower right hand side of. The page or wanted to show the quick to exactly as it appeared he clearly is perfect i definitely can feel better fracture Central Valley rests on the winters near the little painted the rough exterior skin of the bow and wraps around. Some of the roof several slices. And one of the slices can be found sitting on the windowsill immediately to the right very much as it. Has been sliced from the moment its left there is the rough texture of the rock salt right away drifting to the left so. I went past that is the fact that titian helped direct the out so at least practitioner yes it does but they still this was. Your answer yourself perience or you know theres a rough thing here and i dont know whether thats. If you want to transform i think i think what youre touching is the its rough in this model but in real life it would be very soft and that sort of pulpy cannot mean anything you see ok thats what im hearing and were making it difficult the 2nd time you explore the painting you are starting to add sort of layers to the experience after youve gone through the entire thing once do you think that the same is true for tactile models of paintings in general would be more experienced as hell thats a good question there could be theres a 1st time ive done anything like this and i was kind of trying to block out the you know the narration so that i was actually experiencing myself it actually did get better thats for sure but how important is it for these efforts to be made for Art Galleries to be creating things like this for people like you i think its crucial i think there are so many people that ive met that would really appreciate this these are just a few of the accessibility technologies currently in use and as our populations age more innovation is needed to meet the demands of people who become impaired as they get older we pick up that part of the story in portland oregon. A major study called cart Collaborative Aging Research using technology from the National Institutes of health is currently underway to assess accessibility strategies for Senior Citizens so they can extend their ability to live independently as part of the study over 200. 00 Senior Citizen households across the United States are wired with activity trackers will start at the home of beverly healing ok beverly so were were in your home and youre wired up here with a lot of sensors tell me what we have well as we come in the door and theres a sensor on the door which simply means the doors been open and its assumed that somebody is coming and going 82 year old Beverly Healey is a volunteer test subject in a study looking at what happens in the home as we age and what excess ability strategies can be created in the future to remain independent for longer her home has over 20 sensors monitoring her every move. Dr jeffrey k. Of Oregon Health and Science University is the Principal Investigator of the study if you ask people what they want to have happen to them as they get older 90 percent 99 percent will say i want to stay in my home or where i want to be as i get older on the other hand of course people say that because they fear going to a nursing home if youre developing alzheimers disease which is actually now the most feared. Condition in america wow so we really need to figure out ways to better help people as they age as they develop various chronic conditions fill in the ceiling going down the hall youll see a series of motion detectors that say how fast im walking this is my usual gait and if that should show slow appreciably they would notice that and theyd say somethings wrong really its not moving as fast as she usually does and shes lost her energy whats happening we are integrating multiple types of data that comes in 247 that reflects real day to day function across the main things that make a difference in peoples lives so what were able to measure or monitor with the technologies are things like mobility sleep cognitive function so in here is my pill box which is monitored by the modem on my computer and when i open it up in the morning or new you need to take my fellows that registers on the computer so youve got pills for every day of the week here yes and its just getting a sense of whether or not you open the yes not necessarily if you took it i guess but no theres no way they could know that but they can know that ive come to the pill box i booted up and honest and have taken the pills out and one of them Thomas Reilly is an Information Technology systems architect at Oregon Health and Science University i develop the software in our car servers collects the data from the sensors and brings it back and stores it now can you show me some of the information that youre getting sort of so right here we have display from our database so this is the sensor identifier and this is the timestamp here you can see shes not present in that room so the 30 says not present 30 says in our present answer a here at this time stamp she becomes present in the room was chosen for 10 seconds and then comes back and a couple 3 seconds later its present hotel. Seconds so this is just one sensor in medicine changes everything and most change we detect is by self report you go to a Doctors Office and what does the doctor do they ask you a series of questions do you take your medications are you exercising how are you sleeping and we all do our best to try to understand that but its very hard and we know from our own studies that people actually are rather inaccurate in fact in how they are able to report with the data that we get were able to get the actual data and then you can imagine Going Forward that if you were to come to a Doctors Office imagine that instead of asking you all these questions not only just were known but its the real information its the actual events that are happening and then the appointment would be spent more in providing care and counseling as opposed to questioning where do you see some of the innovations whats on the horizon in terms of accessibility for the elderly and Senior Citizens. There will be a natural shift to more comfort in just having technology around and using it Voice Recognition continues to advance quite rapidly so the interface for how you conduct. Interviews. How you interact with technology in general is very rapidly changing the data theyre collecting is helpful as its grouped with data theyre collecting from other people just like me who are also contributing to the program and that somewhere years from now or months from now the data that theyre collecting and assimilating will create a pattern of aging for people who are 20 years younger than i am and feel happy about it thats it for now im dr mara see you next time on technically. Legally prescribe for the pain relief of the sick but taken in life threatening doses by millions in search of a fix. Huge illegal shipments of the opioid tramadol are flawed because the. People in power goes to nigeria to investigate the devastating addiction epidemic that is even fueling the book and search. 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