[Electronics-talk] The first elevated-Pin Braille Smartphone Gets A Prototype

[Carol J. Feazell]

I agree with you, though being so technologically challenged as I am, I 
probably shouldn't have an opinion.  I wonder about the possible size of the 
thing.  I am all excited about this.
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From: "Dave Bahr" <dcbahr1 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 11:29 PM
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Gets A Prototype


> wow. how can I sign up to test the thing? Ok, India isn't exactly a hop 
> skip and a jump from colorado, but that would be great to try. I think 
> droyd would be the best os for it, apple is far too proprietary.
> On 4/24/2013 8:46 PM, David Andrews wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> The First Elevated-Pin Braille Smartphone Gets A Prototype
>>>
>>> Incoming text gets translated into braille through little pins, 
>>> constantly moving up and down to convey what's happening in the phone.
>>>
>>> By Colin Lecher
>>> Popular Science, April 22, 2013.
>>>
>>> With smartphone interaction mostly relying on sight, since there's no 
>>> tactile difference to what's on the screen, some blind people have 
>>> turned to apps to make up the difference. These apps can do some pretty 
>>> impressive things, like determine the denomination of currency or read 
>>> text out loud, rendering braille unnecessary for some tasks.
>>>
>>> But those were workarounds, to make up for the inability to create an 
>>> actual braille interface. For about three years, a team of inventors in 
>>> India have been working on a smartphone that can turn apps and text into 
>>> braille. Now they've got a prototype.
>>>
>>> The phone, from the Centre for Innovation Incubation and 
>>> Entrepreneurship in Ahmedabad, translates text into braille by elevating 
>>> pins: after the text or email or webpage comes in, the pins form a 
>>> braille version that the user can touch to read. It's not clear what 
>>> operating system the phone will run on--Android? Something else?
>>> but according to the Times Of India, it'll feature "all other elements" 
>>> that your more traditional smartphone would have.
>>>
>>> The creators, led by inventor Sumit Dagar, are shooting for a release by 
>>> the end of 2013. Starting price? Just less than 10,000 rupees, or about 
>>> $185.
>>>
>>> [Times Of India]
>>>
>>> from:http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2013-04/inventors-make-braille-sm
>>> artphone-blind
>>
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