#MEET BHOGIP the Senseperceptive Bracelet for People with Visual Disabilities
This is a short interview we conducted with Kevin Morales Chamorro, the creator of BHOGIP the Senseperceptive Bracelet for People with Visual Disabilities. If you like this project and would like to vote for it, click here.
1. Please, tell us a bit about yourself: where are you from and what is your background?
I live in Nicaragua, I'm 20 years, and I am studying the fourth year of medicine, my hobby is to create technological objects and apply reverse engineering, I love serving people and that is why I am determined to join my passion and what I love to do to help millions of people
2. Can you describe your idea or project in two sentences?
It s a senseperceptive bracelet for people with visual disabilities and amnesic, for find and search object, obstacles and increase the capacity of displacement and orientation to avoid the risk of accidents.
3. How did you get your idea or concept?
My idea started when I participated in a national contest about creating an idea for people with disabilities and I found the way to unite everything I love to do and decided to take this course and make this idea, adding that I win the contest and I want to follow more and more, to achieve this dream of many who are on the way.
4. What is unique about your idea/project and how does it benefit mankind?
My project is that first the technical and functional part is different from many others, since they have radiofrequency tracking in a bracelet to identify the coded tags which is the main function that is searched by command or voice, or when passing close to a vibrating label to reach the place, and praise it, in addition to finding and finding objects up to 20 meters away will have the function of registration and monitoring for better usability, and will enable people with visual disabilities to increase their capacity of orientation, sensoperception, mobility and autonomy, to go to the places you want, find what you want and avoid obstacles identified.
5. Describe yourself as an entrepreneur in one sentence
I like being a leader, an idealist, and taking actions of the unresolved problems that exist in the world.
6. How do you deal with people that doubt your abilities/initiatives?
I talk about what I do, I like to explain with scientific basis the things I intend and with tests, I also tell them what I'm passionate about and I show it with respect so that they can feel what I feel.
7. Where does your passion lie?
My passion is in helping vulnerable people, and creating devices to improve their quality of life or people who need something that has no solution for the moment and create a solution and carry out that project.
8. What are you afraid of or what keeps you up at night?
When I do not finish a phase of my project on time, or I do not have the necessary resources, or when I have many obligations planned for the next day are new challenges, and I work on a mental map or solution before the dream expires. That keeps me awake, creating solutions to all the problems that come.
9. According to you, money is a synonym for.....
Opportunities to create a new project and achieve it, invest it in something for the good of many people and create dreams of mine and many people.
10. If you could rid the world of three things, what would they be?
I would rid the world of diseases and their complications, the death of innocents by wars and famine, and also of the lack of education of children.
11. What are the benefits you take from the Entrepreneurship Campus?
My benefits are to feedback with the contestants, to see human development and inspire me to be a better entrepreneur, and through the courses, I educate myself on how to be a better entrepreneur and person.
12. What do you like more about the Entrepreneurship Campus?
What I like best is the human quality that is created through feedback and create links as well to improve ideas and projects.
13. Which idea/project do you like most?
I liked my project more, but I also like the idea about iSEEK
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