Austria’s Tec-Innovation and Graz University of Technology created smart shoes with embedded sensors that alert people who are blind or visually impaired about obstacles in their path, using vibration feedback or an audible warning sent to a smartphone. Source
Verdict Not listed again within the publisher's next two editions, nor later (D33 ). A trend is graded on whether the publisher keeps it, never as a hit or a miss (D6 , D33 ).
The same forecast in other editions All captured fields
rank 275
section Health & Medicine
subsection Wearables and Biointerfaces / Mature Wearables
subject Smart Shoes
horizon Act Now
page 298
confidence high
note horizon is the label the page header highlights (Watch Closely / Informs Strategy / Act Now); it applies to the page the trend starts on. Permalink
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Hindsight, claim ftsg-tech-trends-2022-275, faded as of 2026-10-03. Envisioning. https://www.envisioning.com/hindsight/claims/ftsg-tech-trends-2022-275
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