Michael Gebre Giorgis, a second-year mechanical engineering student, has developed a technology called "Bright" to assist visually impaired individuals.
According to the young innovator, his main goal when starting this project was to address the challenges faced by the estimated 5.4 million partially and fully visually impaired people in Ethiopia.
Michael noted that a significant problem in the country is the scarcity of documents written in Braille for the visually impaired, making it difficult for them to access information and move around freely.
To tackle this issue, he introduced an easily attachable and detachable technology that fits onto eyeglasses.
Describing his invention, Michael explained that visually impaired users simply touch a sensor on the glasses, and the device will effortlessly read aloud the text they wish to read.
Michael added that "Bright" connects to a phone via Bluetooth and uses artificial intelligence to process information on the phone, converting it into an audible format that visually impaired users can easily listen to.
The student pointed out that previous technologies of this kind were often very expensive and inaccessible, and he aimed to bridge that gap with his creation.
Michael, the second-year mechanical engineering student, stated that developing this invention domestically will help in properly addressing language-related issues and other gaps.