To celebrate Disability Pride Month, Music: Not Impossible brought vibrating haptic suits to a Lincoln Center dance party. Vibrating haptic suits give deaf people a new way to feel live music When ...
In a nutshell: A Philadelphia-based company has developed a wearable haptic suit designed to let those who are deaf or have hearing loss experience music by turning notes into vibrations. On its ...
When Daniel Belquer was first asked to join a team to make a better live music experience for deaf and hard-of-hearing people, he was struck by how they had developed work-arounds to enjoy concerts.
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