A pair of award-winning Brisbane engineering students are building what they claim is a world-first stargazing app to cater to the vision-impaired community.
The app has been designed using NASA data and allows users to move their phones around and understand where corresponding planets, satellites, stars and comets are, using touch and sound.
The stargazing app is the only one that allows vision-impaired users to search for specific planets and stars and verbalises detailed information. The app is currently being tested and it is planned to launch in the Apple App Store within the next two months.