--- title: CAN Go Smart Cane: The 200 Best Inventions of 2023 description: Find out why CAN Go Smart Cane is one of the best inventions of 2023 canonical: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6323024/can-go-smart-cane/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2023-10-24T11:00:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-03T00:21:41.481Z og:title: CAN Go Smart Cane: The 200 Best Inventions of 2023 og:description: Find out why CAN Go Smart Cane made this year's list og:url: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6323024/can-go-smart-cane/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt75ff897158a0911c/698a417447ca3882823bb3dc/best-inventions-2023-can-go-smart-cane.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: CAN Go Smart Cane: The 200 Best Inventions of 2023 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: CAN Go Smart Cane: The 200 Best Inventions of 2023 twitter:description: Find out why CAN Go Smart Cane made this year's list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt75ff897158a0911c/698a417447ca3882823bb3dc/best-inventions-2023-can-go-smart-cane.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Oct 24, 2023 # Safer Seniors CAN Go Smart Cane by John Mihaly  Every year, about [$50 billion](https://www.cdc.gov/falls/data/index.html#:~:text=Falls%20among%20adults%20ages%2065,to%20non%2Dfatal%20fall%20injuries.) is spent on medical costs related to older adults taking a fall. The CAN Go is an AI-powered smart cane with fall detection, activity tracking, GPS location, a flashlight, and emergency-calling features. “A lot of seniors don’t adopt new technologies,” says Ahmad Alghazi, founder and CEO of CAN, “which is why we decided to embed them into devices they already need or use.” The device, which updates over the air, learns about the daily activity of its users and can share that data with family members and medical professionals. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6323024/can-go-smart-cane/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6323024/can-go-smart-cane/"},"headline":"Safer Seniors","datePublished":"2023-10-24T11:00:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:21:41.481Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6323024/can-go-smart-cane/","keywords":["list","franchise","ecommerce","Magazine","best inventions","Best Inventions 2023"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt75ff897158a0911c/698a417447ca3882823bb3dc/best-inventions-2023-can-go-smart-cane.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt75ff897158a0911c/698a417447ca3882823bb3dc/best-inventions-2023-can-go-smart-cane.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6323024/can-go-smart-cane/","name":"Safer Seniors"}}]}] ```