For the best part of a decade, Animorph Co-operative, a London-based software development organisation, had harboured a dream of improving memory for people with dementia through a device that builds cross-sensory associations.

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CrossSense combines wearable tech – lightweight smart glasses – and an augmented reality app to help people living with dementia to remember loved ones, objects, and daily tasks. The glasses connect with an energy efficient box – an edge server that stores data and processes requests, doing “the heavy lifting” for the system. This box is encrypted and functions offline “in a secure, independent network,” to protect people’s privacy – no data is sent to the Cloud. Using an AI agent named ‘Wispy’, the user can assign text and audio tags to objects in their physical environment. These objects could be personal such as photographs and mementos, or practical (toasters, kettles etc.).