Scientist Galimzhan Gabdreshov
invented a sensational know-how that enables visually impaired people in
Kazakhstan to sign documents, execute transactions and make banking and other
operations unassisted. He came up with the idea of exploiting a special machine
to produce a plastic stencil, which will help the blind persons to put a
signature themselves using a pen over the holes cut in the stencil wherever
they need.
“With our own design-engineering
department and original design manufacturer, we have completely developed a
model and an engineering drawing. If we receive funding, such devices will
appear in two regions. Blind residents in Atyrau will be the first people in
the world to affix their signatures like everybody else, having no barriers
anymore,” Gabdreshov said.
Domestic experts have already
given a legal opinion on the possibility of putting a signature with the use of
a stencil. This means that perhaps soon visually impaired Kazakh citizens will
no longer need to look for a trustee or contact a notary. The Kazakh inventor
sparked the interest of the United States in this and other innovations.
“All these inventions, including
a bio-location device, are widely applied. We have signed contracts with the world’s
largest Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired in the capital city of
Austin. We established partnerships with the leadership of this school, which
has excellent comfortable conditions to implement such an invention. Moreover,
the Texas administration is all set to allocate funding to provide us with all
the necessary equipment with the production capacity, so that we can work for
the benefit of people with visual impairments,” he shared.
In addition to new developments,
the Kazakh scientist constantly improves the devices he has already made. For
example, he modernized the Sezual bio-location device eight times. Recent
adjustments have greatly facilitated the device and gave the possibility of
remote control, with which the user can now increase the sharpness, change the
range and resonant frequency of the device. Gabdreshov’s inventions were
nominated for the United Nations award in 2020 and entered the top of European
innovations.
Editor: Aizhan
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