Mavis Technologies

29/08/2026

15/08/2026

There's a lot of anger about smart glasses at the moment — and not enough thought about who it hurts.

When smart glasses get called "pervert glasses," that word doesn't just hit the technology. It hits the person using them to read a menu, find their bus, or tell one tin off the shelf from another.

We understand why people worry about cameras in public. Those questions are fair. So here's exactly how Mavis works:

Mavis isn't entertainment eyewear. It's an aid, built for blind and visually impaired people.

There is no option to save a photo or video — it isn't a setting we turned off, it simply isn't part of the product. What the camera sees is analysed to describe the wearer's surroundings, and then instantly deleted. There's no gallery, no album, nothing kept anywhere. Nothing stored means nothing that can be shared or leaked.

That makes it a very different thing from consumer glasses designed for filming and posting your day. Same name, completely different purpose.

We're based in the UK, and we're currently reaching out to restaurants, venues and organisations that have banned smart glasses — not to argue, but to explain the difference and help them write rules that protect everyone's privacy without shutting disabled people out.

And if you have questions, ask us. Anyone is welcome to call or message us, and we'll answer honestly. We can afford to be completely open about our data, because we don't keep any.

Privacy and accessibility aren't opposites. Get the design right and you have both. 💙

06/08/2026

🚶‍♂️🦺 Avoid obstacles. Recognise objects. Understand your surroundings.

Mavis Glasses bring together three powerful features:

✅ Obstacle Detection
✅ Object Recognition
✅ Scene Description

Our unique obstacle detection technology can work without an internet connection, helping users stay aware of obstacles in real time.

Need more information about what's around you?

Mavis can also recognise everyday objects and provide detailed descriptions of your surroundings.

Even better, these features can work together to create a more complete understanding of the environment around you.

Helping users move with greater confidence and independence every day.

🌐 For more information and features, please visit:

manual.mavistech.uk

06/08/2026

Nothing tells the Mavis story better than the people using our glasses every day.

This week on RNIB Tech Talk (episode 628), Carl Peach — who's been living with the Mavis Smart Glasses — sat down to share how they're fitting into his daily life: getting around, reading text, and navigating the world with more independence and confidence.

Carl Peach has been with us from the very beginning, and his continuous support and honest feedback have shaped Mavis at every step. From all of us — thank you, Carl Peach. 🙏

Hearing directly from our users is exactly why we built Mavis. Every piece of feedback shapes where we take the technology next.

🎧 Listen to Carl's segment (about an hour in): https://audioboom.com/posts/8935828-tech-talk-628-athina-ad-brian-hartgen-on-leasey-and-mavis-smart-glasses-user-experiences

This week, we’ll be finding out about Athina AD, a new tool which uses AI to help blind and partially sighted people to describe their videos, Brian Hartgen will be joining us to talk all things Leasey and its latest update, and we’ll be speaking to Carl, who has been a user o...

03/08/2026

👥 Meet our Face Recognition feature!

Recognising familiar faces is now easier than ever with Mavis Glasses.

Simply say:

🎙️ "Add new face"

Mavis will guide you through registering someone and securely saving their face.

Once registered, Mavis can:

✅ Announce recognised people automatically
✅ Tell you who is in front of you when asked
✅ Continuously recognise people hands-free

Try commands like:

🎙️ "Who is in front of me?"
🎙️ "Start recognizing faces"
🎙️ "Stop recognizing faces"

Designed to make everyday interactions more comfortable, confident, and accessible.

🌐 For more information and features, please visit manual.mavistech.uk

03/08/2026

📅 2026 is going to be a BUSY one for us! 🎉

We're hitting the road across the UK to showcase our AI smart glasses — the Viaro and Itero — designed and built right here in Britain to help blind and partially sighted people live with greater independence.

Come and find us at:

💻 6 Aug — Visionary Online Tech Forum (online)
📍 10 Sep — Seescape Accessible Tech Event, Glenrothes
📍 22 Sep — Sight Village North Wales, Llandudno
📍 5 Oct — NAB Demo, Kettering
📍 21 Oct — NAB Demo, St Crispins Village, Northampton
📍 27–28 Oct — Sight Village London
📍 3 Dec — International Day of People with a Disability, One Angel Square, Northampton (staff event)

We'll keep adding dates as they're confirmed — bookmark our events page and come try the glasses hands-on. We'd love to meet you! 👓✨

🔗 https://mavistech.uk/events/

Visionary Online: Tech Forum with Mavis Tech August 6 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am online 💻 Join Mavis Technologies for the Visionary Online Tech Forum! Come and hear about the Mavis smart glasses for blind and partially sighted people — designed, engineered and manufactured in Britain by a founder wh...

30/07/2026

📧 Send, Receive & Read Emails with Your Voice

Email doesn't have to be complicated.

Using Mavis Glasses, you can:

✅ Read your latest unread emails
✅ Send new emails using voice commands
✅ Reply to existing emails
✅ Contact Mavis Support directly

Simply activate the Voice Assistant and say:

🎙️ "Read latest email"
🎙️ "Send new email"
🎙️ "Reply to John's email received yesterday"
🎙️ "Send new email to Mavis support"

Mavis will guide you through every step, making email communication quick and accessible.

🌐 For more information and features, please visit manual.mavistech.uk

27/07/2026

🚌🚆 Travel information at the sound of your voice!

Our new Bus & Train Times feature lets you check live departures without opening an app.

Simply activate the Voice Assistant and say:

👉 "Bus times" or "Next bus"
👉 "Train times" or "Next train"

Mavis can automatically find nearby bus stops and train stations, then read out upcoming departures, destinations, and arrival times.

Need more details?

You can ask: ✅ "Bus fifteen full timetable" ✅ "Trains to Brighton"

It's quick, simple, and designed to help make everyday journeys easier.

🌐 For more information and features, please visit manual.mavistech.uk

21/07/2026

🇬🇧 Proudly made in the UK — designed, engineered, and manufactured right here!

At Mavis Tech, we build everything in-house — the hardware, the firmware, and the software. That means we can tailor glasses to what each customer actually needs, and it's also why we're able to push out new features almost every single day. 🚀

Today we want to shine a light on one of our newest features: barcode scanning that tells you everything about a product, just by asking. 🛒

We know how stressful shopping can be when you can't easily tell what a product is, how healthy it is, whether it contains something you're allergic to, or what's actually in it. Now, all you have to do is ask your Mavis voice assistant to scan the barcode — and your glasses will read back the full product information. No guesswork, no worry. 💙

This is exactly why we build in-house — so we can keep making everyday life a little easier, one update at a time.
More exciting features on the way — watch this space! 👀

19/07/2026

Yesterday, we had the pleasure of welcoming Lucy Rigby KC MP, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, to our manufacturing facility at Vulcan Works Creative Hub!🎉

Lucy met our team and our CEO David Sikharulidze, took a tour of the facility, and even tried on our smart glasses for herself — it was fantastic to see her genuinely impressed by what we’ve built here in Northampton.

We shared with her that much of our machinery and equipment was purchased with the help of government grant funding, support that’s been instrumental in getting our manufacturing capability off the ground. We’re incredibly grateful for this kind of backing, and we feel very lucky to be based in Northampton, where that support has been so accessible to a young, ambitious business like ours.

A huge thank you to Lucy Rigby KC MP for taking the time to visit and for her support, and to Barclays UK eagle lab and Owen Moran for their continued support and for organising this meeting at Vulcan Works. 🙏