The ultimate complement to white canes & guide dogs.

NOA is the mobility vest for people with blindness and low vision. It's worn on the shoulders, with wide-angle cameras on the left of your chest, a small computer on the right, and a battery behind your neck. The perfect complement to white canes and guide dogs.

NOA identifies dangers with beeps in headphones, provides navigation instructions, describes your surroundings and helps you find objects such as crosswalks, stairs, doors or empty seats. All of that in a compact, hands-free device.

Swipe your cane

NOA augments it

GPS navigation

Obstacle detection

AI description

Object finding

What is NOA?

NOA stands for Navigation, Obstacle and AI. A complement to white canes and guide dogs.

Navigation: Get turn-by-turn GPS instructions in bone-conduction headphones. "In 20 meters, turn right at 2 o'clock."



Obstacle: Detect obstacles day and night, head or ground level with "beeps". Low hanging branches, holes, electric scooters, or traffic signs.

AI: Get descriptions of your surroundings, hands-free, using AI. And find objects like doors, benches, stairs or crosswalks.

NOA works day and night. Its cameras have night vision and can see in the dark. The device has the same field of view as the human eye.

NOA is lightweight (1kg or 2 lbs) and can even be worn on top of a backpack. Batteries last up to 6 hours in continuous use.

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An image of a NOA device designed to be worn over the shoulder. It has several sensors or cameras and is presented in a sleek black design against a bright purple background. The accompanying text explains that biped uses artificial intelligence to analyze the environment and warns users of potential collisions with 3D sound, offers GPS directions, and provides scene descriptions for safe and stress-free travel.
A device equipped with 2 batteries for up to 7 hours of continuous operation, 3 cameras scanning 170° from head to floor, day and night, a high-performance computer with self-driving car capabilities, and a simple tactile/button interface for quick on-the-go interactions

NOA is now available

Delivery within 6 to 9 weeks

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Testimonials

I honestly don't think I have ever purchased anything that has so much potential to be life-changing.
Stuart Beveridge from Seescape
I truly loved it. I talked to some students about what kind of device would be most useful to them. You basically made that.
Alexandra from Birmingham
From all the technologies we have tested, NOA is probably the best obstacle detection system
Stephan from SZBlind, Switzerland

NOA is a complement to white canes and guide dogs. It was developed with over 250 beta-testers, low-vision professionals, O&M trainers, and the ophthalmic hospital Jules Gonin in Switzerland. It took biped's team 3 years of research & development and a world-first collaboration with Honda Research Institute to come to life.

NOA is simple to use. The initial training phase takes a few minutes. Most users highlight that the device is light to wear, and comfortable. It's really worn like a backpack. It was actually desgined to be worn on top of backpacks. And once you're done, simply flatten the flexible straps of your device and store it in your bag.

Community-driven

NOA was designed with over 250 beta-testers. We traveled to 19 countries. To understand the problem deep down. To identify the local challenges. What people had tried. What worked and what didn't. And build the ultimate complement to white canes and guide dogs.

We also involved orientation and mobility specialists from the ground up. We designed NOA as a complement, that does not interfere with the white cane technique. We co-designed simple training templates that you can easily follow.

Various pictures of users with NOA on their shoulders. A group of orientation and mobility specialists attending a presentation of NOA in a room.

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biped's co-founder, Mael, was recently invited by the Vista Center for the Blind to talk about NOA, on the Tech It Out show. If you have an hour ahead of you, and want to deep dive on the product, what it's like, how to use it, and how it will evolve, this is the video you were looking for. Enjoy the conversation!

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