Innovation Design Engineering
Touch&Turn is a new innovative cooking system specifically tailored to the needs of the blind and partially sighted. Out of the two million people with a visual impairment in the UK, half of them cook lovely meals every day. However, the other rarely cook because of various impediments. Whereas a small number have other disabilities that prevent them from cooking, most lack the confidence or find it difficult to overcome the hurdles involved in order to prepare a tasty and healthy meal.
Touch&Turn is designed to overcome many of the practical and emotional barriers. It enables everyone to enjoy cooking safely while benefitting from an intuitive tactile and audio-based interface. Touch&Turn would be sold as a set consisting of a single hob and a matching pot.
Winner Technology Strategy Board Award for Independent Living and the Helen Hamlyn Design Award for Creativity
