[Tactile-Talk] newhaptics

Jason J.G. White jason at jasonjgw.net
Thu Sep 19 22:26:28 UTC 2024 

Conversion between image formats is relatively well automated. You 
should be able to convert whatever file you have to a format that your 
tactile device can accept. It doesn't follow, unfortunately, that the 
resulting tactile graphic will be meaningful and comprehensible to the 
tactile reader.

Both Graphiti and Monarch support manipulation of the tactile graphic, 
once displayed. Particularly interesting is the option to rotate the 
image by 90 degrees, as in landscape orientation.

On the subject of other devices, numerous tactile actuation methods are 
disclosed in patents that have been issued during the last several 
decades. There's an enormous distance between a patent application and 
hardware that is available to the public, as the history of this field 
has suggested. I don't know which projects are currently active, or 
which have a real prospect of commercial viability.

On 19/9/24 09:28, Ken Perry via Tactile-Talk wrote:
>
> 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
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 19, 2024 9:17 AM
> *To:* Tactile Talk for the discussion of the display and use of 
> graphics on refreshable Braille platforms <tactile-talk at nfbnet.org>
> *Cc:* Alfred D'Agostino <alfred.t.dagostinophd at gmail.com>
> *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> 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.
>
>
>
>
>     From: Tactile-Talk <tactile-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Rich
>     Caloggero via Tactile-Talk
>     Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2024 5:44 PM
>     To: 'Tactile Talk for the discussion of the display and use of
>     graphics on
>     refreshable Braille platforms' <tactile-talk at nfbnet.org>
>     Cc: Rich Caloggero <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
>
>
>     _______________________________________________
>     Tactile-Talk mailing list
>     Tactile-Talk at nfbnet.org
>     http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/tactile-talk_nfbnet.org
>     To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
>     Tactile-Talk:
>     http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/tactile-talk_nfbnet.org/kperry%40blinksoft
>     .com
>     <http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/tactile-talk_nfbnet.org/kperry%40blinksoft.com>
>
>
>     _______________________________________________
>     Tactile-Talk mailing list
>     Tactile-Talk at nfbnet.org
>     http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/tactile-talk_nfbnet.org
>     To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info
>     for Tactile-Talk:
>     http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/tactile-talk_nfbnet.org/alfred.t.dagostinophd%40gmail.com
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Tactile-Talk mailing list
> Tactile-Talk at nfbnet.org
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/tactile-talk_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for Tactile-Talk:
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/tactile-talk_nfbnet.org/jason%40jasonjgw.net
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://nfbnet.org/pipermail/tactile-talk_nfbnet.org/attachments/20240919/a2df1d68/attachment-0001.htm>

More information about the Tactile-Talk mailing list