Lend Me Your Eyes

People Fixing the World

• Episode: Lend Me Your Eyes
• Website: People Fixing the World
• Feed URL: http://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p04grdbc.rss
• Duration: 00:22:57
• Published: 2017-02-04 04:06

A new app is helping blind people solve everyday problems by combining smartphones video technology and an army of armchair volunteers. World Hacks investigates how it works and explores whether micro-volunteering projects like this have the potential to solve all kinds of problems in the future. Presented by Mukul Devichand. Image caption: Vicky, who is blind, using an app to help her sew / Image credit: BBC