Major automakers are using their engineering potential not only to create vehicles. According to Cnet, expertsfrom Toyota North American unit are working on another project. As part of Toyota Project BLAID initiative, the company creates a wearable device with built-in cameras that can recognize objects and inscriptions, and then use the voice interface to prompt the direction of movement of blind people.

Users can generate queries in the voiced form, and the information on the relative positions of objects stored in the device is used for navigation in premises. The user's hand may be free.

Toyota corporation, which in its own country pays much attention to the creation of personal vehicles, recently took other developments. For example, with the help of Lexus engineers the company has made a hoverboard-like device from "Back to the Future."

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