Smartphones and navigation apps have become second nature these days. But for those with blindness and low vision, it’s not quite so convenient. Haptic Works has been building a non-visual, non-verbal way of telling people where to go and presented it onstage today as part of the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt. The advance Haptic has made is a way of using vibration and other tactile sensations to communicate the simple, intuitive idea that the user is going in the right direction.
