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- Country of residence: Palestine
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After several
months of work, research and design, the Gazan engineer, Nadia Zuhair Al-Khatib,
was able to create smart glasses that could end the suffering of millions of
people with hearing disabilities around the world. According to official
Palestinian estimates, 19,811 people suffer from hearing impairments in
occupied Palestine, including 9,821 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
The glasses,
which are called “Peace Ear Glasses,” are based on translating people’s voices
and their speech through the microphone attached to the glasses into a written
language, which is displayed and reflected on the glasses’ lenses, to be read
and understood.
According to
Nadia, the glasses were designed with a suitable accessory so as not to
obstruct vision, not affect the eye, and be suitable to facilitate
communication with those who cannot hear.
Given the scarcity
and limited resources and parts that were a major obstacle, a prototype of the
project was completed, that is, just a manual version that needed a lot of
preparation, development and appropriate additions, to become a final product
that serves 466 million people with hearing disabilities around the world.
Innovation
chapters began brewing in Nadia Zuhair's mind with her graduation project, and
she had previously decided that her graduation project could not be just a
project, but rather it must be a concrete and real project, and that it be a
great message and the seed of a project with a great goal that serves the
community. And she was insisting on using artificial intelligence in it, in
order to combine her passion and mission, and from it the start.
On the other
hand, “Nadia” had a message and concern for all people with special needs, and
not a particular group in particular, and after deep thought in determining the
category that the project will present to them and be an assistant to them,
“Nadia” decided that the first message I work on would be an introduction to
the great people (people with hearing needs Among the reasons for choosing this
category is the lack of inventions provided and assistance to them, so I
thought of creating smart glasses that would serve as a means to help them face
the difficulties of communicating and communicating effectively with those
around them, and help them understand others by translating the voices of those
who speak with them into written language.
The innovation
of the Gazan engineer came to a class that desperately needs such innovations.
Especially since those who suffer from hearing disabilities face a problem with
the language spoken in front of them and in the councils, and therefore
artificial intelligence was used to provide a new way to end their problem in
communication and communication, and the “Peace Ear Glasses” came to take their
place among the innovations that are beneficial to humanity in general.
It is
noteworthy that the innovation of Engineer Nadia is among the wearable devices
anywhere, and its cost is very low, and today it needs to be adopted by
business incubators in occupied Palestine or the world. by a person with a
hearing impairment.
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