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

[Jennifer Hall]

This sounds promising!  The price is quite impressive as well.  Thanks 
for sharing! Jennifer




On 4/24/2013 6:39 PM, John Glisson wrote:
> Sounds pretty neat. Reminds me of the old Optacom which too used
> hundreds/thousands of tiny electronic pins to tactually form regular
> alphabet characters.  I wondered then why wasn't that technology used to
> form the Braille characters ... Thanks for sharing ... John g.
>
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> How exciting this is, and very reasonably priced!! Thanks for sharing,
> Tonia.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Todd
>
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> 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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