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A Kostanay schoolboy invented a "smart cap" for the visually impaired

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Leonid Naprasny, a school student from Kostanay, with the support of teachers Zhana Nurtazina and Gulmira Nurgalieva from Secondary School No. 19, created a "smart cap" for the visually impaired. The device, equipped with cameras, sensors, and AI, scans the environment in real time and provides voice alerts about potential dangers. The education sector has noted an improvement in the safety of movement. The authors plan to launch mass production of this innovation.

Kostanay school student Leonid Naprasny invented a "smart cap" for the visually impaired.

His computer science teachers, Zhanat Nurtazina and Gulmira Nurgalieva from Secondary School No. 19, helped him with this.

The innovative headwear will improve safety of movement in urban environments, the regional Department of Education reported.

The cap is equipped with cameras and sensors that ensure constant scanning of the surrounding environment. Artificial intelligence analyzes the received data in real time and generates voice prompts, notifying the user about obstacles, the height of objects, and more.

Now they plan to establish cooperation with organizations to launch mass production of the "innovative cap."

Source: ru.sputnik.kz

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