[Tactile-Talk] newhaptics

Thu Sep 19 13:28:51 UTC 2024

Unfortunately there is not a standard format yet.  Most of the companies are doing their own thing.  Monarch and Graphiti can handle different file format but they can be regular images like jpeg, png, bmp.  Some o  like the grpahiti have a csv file style as well that you can make a text file to make the dots at different highest and even cause them to blink. All of the current ones has some way to take regular graphics and show it to varying levels of success.  All of them have ways to change filters for either color or brightness or grey scale and ways to invert from light to dark because depending on hwo the tactile comes out it looks better inverted or not.

There are other displays like the Metech  one, the Dot which uses the same dots as the monarch. There is the Kadence and the Kadence has some other displays that the company is working on that uses the same dots.  When we started working on the Graphiti in before 2016 I don’t have the exact date it was between 2013 and 2016 I can find it but just don’t have it in my head.  When we started work on it there were 65 different companies working on different technologies.  I might go back and revise that list and see how many I can get a hold of now days.

There is even one that a research is working on that runs on methane and moves the pins like a piston of a car.  Yes with tiny explosions.  Pretty crazy if you ask me.

This is the coolest one right here:

https://metec-ag.de/en/produkte-graphik-display.php

I have even seen displays that flip half sphears over  to cause the dots to rise  under a rubber barrier .

From: Tactile-Talk <tactile-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Alfred D'Agostino via Tactile-Talk
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Subject: Re: [Tactile-Talk] newhaptics

Good morning.

Aside from the development of a full-page display from Newhaptics, and the Graphiti and Monarch, are there any other existing devices or ones being developed?

In general, what form does a graphic have to be in to be translated into the raised-dot format? on these devices? That is, taking a photocopy and digitizing it into bitmap; or if already in digital form, how is it translated into ‘pixels’ on the  device. 

How does a figure in a online digital textbook get translated? Is there a standard protocol / interface?

Alfred

On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 7:32 PM Ken Perry via Tactile-Talk <tactile-talk at nfbnet.org <mailto:tactile-talk at nfbnet.org> > wrote:

Yes I have seen it. This is an off shoot of University of Michigan and was
called the Holy Braille.  If you do a search you can probably find a video
on it.   It runs on Air and the under lying  technology has a rubber mat
like material that pushes up pins.  It can run on a air pump or CO2
cartridge.  It has micro vacuoles that open and close to move the pins up
and down.  I like how compact the material is and I have helped with some of
my knowledge in the past . I have my worries about its power source but they
are showing the technology now and it can be resized to make larger
displays.  I say the more types of technologies out there the better.  

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Caloggero via Tactile-Talk
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Cc: Rich Caloggero <rjc at mit.edu <mailto:rjc at mit.edu> >
Subject: [Tactile-Talk] newhaptics

Anyone heard of this company or seen their haptic display? They were at CSUN
this past spring.

https://www.newhaptics.com/about

-- 
Rich Caloggero
Accessibility Specialist
Disability and Access Services
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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