At Mavis Technologies, our smart glasses bring together three capabilities that work in combination to help blind and partially sighted users navigate and understand their surroundings with greater confidence: obstacle detection, object recognition and scene description. Obstacle detection alerts the wearer to objects and changes in terrain in their path. Object recognition identifies items around them, while scene description provides a spoken summary of what is in view. Used together, these features give users a fuller, real-time understanding of their environment.
Mavis Technologies has introduced Face Recognition, a new feature designed to make social interactions more natural, accessible and confident for blind and partially sighted users. With Mavis Glasses, users can register familiar people and have their names announced automatically when they come into view. Registering a face is simple — a spoken command such as “Add new face” or “Register a face” guides the user through capturing clear photos and saving the person’s name. Once enabled, recognised people are announced by name as part of the glasses’ scene descriptions, helping users identify familiar faces naturally. Users can also ask at any time, “Who is in front of me?”, or enable continuous recognition for a fully hands-free experience.
At Mavis Tech, we design and manufacture our smart glasses entirely in-house — hardware, firmware and software all built under one roof in Northampton. Keeping the whole process in the UK is more than a manufacturing choice. It gives us full control over quality, lets us respond quickly to feedback from the blind and partially sighted community, and means every pair of Mavis Glasses is engineered and assembled to our own standards. Built in Britain, designed for global impact.
At Mavis Tech, security is not an afterthought — it is built in. Every pair of our smart glasses uses VPN encryption for all data transmitted between the glasses and our servers. That means whatever you are doing and however you are connected, the information passing between your Mavis Glasses and our systems is encrypted and protected. Privacy and data security are core parts of how the product is designed.
Mavis Technologies is growing, and we are taking on two Customer Support Interns to join our small team in Northampton. These roles are open specifically to blind and partially sighted individuals. As a Customer Support Intern you would help our users get the most from their Mavis Glasses, gaining hands-on experience with assistive technology at a fast-moving UK start-up. If you or someone you know would be a great fit, we would love to hear from you.
What a day at Sight Village Birmingham! Our team was at the centre of the action from start to finish, and it was non-stop throughout. So many people stopped by our stand to try the Mavis Glasses, and we did our best to make sure everyone got their turn. Events like Sight Village are a brilliant opportunity to meet the community we build for, hear feedback first-hand, and show what our smart glasses can do.
Thank you to everyone who attended our recent product launch. It was wonderful to meet so many people and to hear their thoughts on what we are building. Events like this bring together our community, partners and supporters, and let us share the progress Mavis Technologies is making towards greater independence for blind and partially sighted people. We are grateful to all who took the time to join us.
Save the date! We are live streaming our product launch on Tuesday 28 April at 6pm. Join us for an exclusive demonstration of our smart glasses in action. You will hear from our founder, investors and special guests. Do not miss the chance to see what Mavis Glasses can do.
An exciting milestone for Mavis Tech: we were featured on Sky News, appearing alongside Robin Spinks of the RNIB and Dr Suraj Ajit of the University of Northampton. The coverage highlighted how AI-powered smart glasses can support independence for blind and partially sighted people, and the collaboration between industry, a leading sight-loss charity and academia behind that work.
We were honoured to welcome Liz Jackson MBE to Mavis Technologies Limited. Her visit was far more than symbolic—it was a meaningful endorsement of our mission to scale inclusive, life-changing technology for the visually impaired.
