Sesame Phone: A Hands-Free Smartphone for Paralyzed Users
A combination of voice commands and turns of the head lets a user manipulate the phone’s screen and apps.
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Innovator: Oded Ben-Dov
Age: 34
Co-founder and chief executive officer of Sesame Enable, a six-employee startup in Caesarea, Israel
Origin
In 2011, after making a mobile game that uses head gestures, Ben-Dov got a call from Giora Livne—a quadriplegic and his future co-founder—asking for help designing a smartphone he could use.