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Taking on big tech with an app that helps everyone cross the road

3 December 2018

For people with disabilities, some tasks that others might consider ‘simple’ can prove difficult. And it was this thought that drove Gavin Neate to create a smartphone app that helps people who can’t access buttons at pedestrian crossings.

“Pressing a button is probably the easiest thing you could possibly do,” said Gavin. “However, if you cannot reach the button – if you can’t find the button – then it is a real challenge.”

The invention has now resulted in his Edinburgh company getting nominated alongside tech giants Microsoft and Facebook for a .

The app that helps everyone cross the road

The Scottish company making a difference and taking on two tech giants for an award.

There’s an app for that ...now

Their solution was to create app-enabled pedestrian crossings, which activate with either a button press on the phone or simply when the phone is in close proximity to the crossing.

“When you see somebody just go ‘YES!’ or ‘No Way!’ when you tell them that it can be done — it can change their world.”