Head-motion activated technology brings usability and ubiquity of smartphones to previously excluded disabled populations
TEL AVIV, Israel — Nov. 11, 2014 – Sesame Enable today announced the launch of the first completely hands-free smartphone, the Sesame Phone. Designed by a quadriplegic, the head-motion activated mobile device brings the cellphone revolution to a population that has until now been excluded — people with spinal chord injuries, ALS, Cerebral Palsy, severe Parkinson’s, Multiple Sclerosis, severe arthritis, carpal tunnel syndrome, and other disabilities that impair the use of the hands and arms.
Co-founders Giora Livne, a quadriplegic veteran and former electrical engineer, and Oded Ben Dov, an app developer and computer vision expert, teamed up in 2012 to develop a smartphone for people who have limited, or no, use of their hands. Sesame Enable is now accepting Sesame Phone pre-orders and launching an Indiegogo campaign to raise funds to support final R&D needed to ensur…