Sixth Sense

Sixth Sense is a wearable navigational aid and app co-designed with visually impaired people to improve their freedom of travel.

It combines hazard detection with a mobile app to keep you on course to your destination, whilst alerting you to things in your environment.

Sixth Sense pairs perfectly with the white cane. It is designed to detect roadblocks above ground level whilst also being controllable via verbal commands, so you can keep your hands free for anything life throws at you.

Our Vision

Give visually impaired people the independence and confidence to decide when and where they go.

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A residential neighbourhood how the Sixth Sense would see it to recognize obstacles

How Does It Work?

Step Safely

  • Reliable and accurate obstacle detection, for all objects, in all conditions, with no false alerts

  • Reporting direction and distance of sensed hazards through tunable haptic and audio alerts

  • Open space (point to point) navigation, via suite of on-board hardware sensors – no need for signal / line of sight

A man in blue jeans and a checked dress shirt is wearing the sixth sense like a pair of head phones.
A smart phone displaying a map. The phone is being held up in someone's hand and the background is a blurred city scape.

Enjoy the Journey

  • Hand free GPS with superior location accuracy and improved orientation sensing

  • Turn-by-turn route navigation via Bluetooth with mobile App – pause and start, repeat and silence – no need to carry a mobile in hand

  • Single, comfortable wearable format with no trailing wires, extra battery or external computer

A man in black coat and trousers using a white cane and about to walk through payment and ticket scanning gates at a train station.

Building on capability:
Not disability

Hope Tech is committed to building the best possible experience for people who use our products. We are working hard to listen and learn from the communities we serve:

  • Over 100 hours of user testing

  • Engagement with communities in 4 countries

  • Over 2000 hours of development (and counting!)

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Our Partners

Hope Tech has collaborations and partnerships with organisations around the world. We are grateful for all the ongoing support and expertise.

Royal Academy of Engineering
Innovate Now
Hilfsgemeinschaft der Blinden und Sehschwachen Österreichs
Global Disability Innovation Hub
Better Mobility Accelerator
EIT Urban Mobility Co-founded by the European Union

EIT Urban Mobility is supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union

SetSquared Bristol
DAT Europe Digital Assistive Technology Industry Association