Sesame Enable Touch-Free Smartphone Named a Finalist for the SXSW Innovation Award

Sesame Enable Touch-Free Smartphone Named a Finalist for the SXSW Innovation Award

Sesame Enable recognized for changing lives by bringing the mobile revolution to people with disabilities with world's first hands-free smartphone

TEL AVIV, Israel, February 18, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

    Sesame Enable [http://sesame-enable.com ] today announced  that SXSW 2016 has named it
a finalist for its Interactive Innovation Award. The 19th annual SXSW Interactive
Innovation Awards celebrate the most inspiring and creative innovations in the connected
world. Sesame Enable was recognized as a finalist for the best way to connect and
communicate.

       
        - Sesame will present at the Finalist Showcase on Monday, March 14 - details here
          [http://www.sxsw.com/interactive/awards/finalist-showcase ]
        - Winners will be announced at the SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards Ceremony on
          Tuesday, March 15 in Austin, TX
        - Sesame Enable's leadership team is available to meet at SXSW with reporters, relevant
          organizations and companies. To set up a meeting in Texas March 13 - 16, please
          contact leron@siliconvpr.com

    "We are honored to be recognized by SXSW for using technology to improve the lives of
people with disabilities, who have until now been shut out of the smartphone revolution,"
said Sesame Enable CEO and co-founder Oded Ben Dov. "The Sesame Phone empowers people with
limited or no use of their hands to gain independence and privacy and become digitally
connected - things many of us take for granted in the digital age."

    Sesame Enable just kicked off a groundbreaking initiative in collaboration with Google
and Beit Issie Shapiro [http://en.beitissie.org.il ] to supply complimentary touch-free
Sesame smartphones to every disabled adult and child in the State of Israel who has
limited or no use of their hands. The initiative is to serve as a pilot program that could
be replicated in the US and elsewhere around the globe. This marks the first time the
digital needs of an entire disabled population is being addressed. The project, made
possible by a $1 million grant from Google, enables Sesame phones to be distributed over
the next year to people with spinal cord injuries, ALS, severe Parkinson's disease and
other conditions that severely limit range of motion.

    Sesame Enable developed the world's first completely touch-free smartphone. Designed
by co-founders Giora Livne, a quadriplegic veteran and former electrical engineer, and
computer vision expert Oded Ben Dov, Sesame Enable won Michael Bloomberg's Genesis
Generation Challenge (2015), the Verizon Powerful Answers Award (2014) and Nominet Trust
100 (2014).

    About Sesame Enable 

    Sesame developed the first completely touch-free smartphone, created for the disabled
by the disabled. Powered by voice control and cutting-edge head-tracking technology, the
Sesame Phone opens a new world of communication and independence to a population that
needs it most: quadriplegics, people suffering from ALS, Parkinson's disease, spinal cord
injuries, Multiple Sclerosis, severe Arthritis, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, and others that
have limited to no use of their hands.

    Link to media kit: http://bit.ly/1xfdJC0

    Note -- Photo credit: Basti Hansen 

       
         
        Media Contact 
        Leron Kornreich 
        leron@siliconvpr.com 
        +1-415-937-1724 

     

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