[Blindmath] Assistance with a competition

Wed Mar 1 10:02:08 UTC 2017

Hi Brandon, thanks for your email.

What we are developing is technology that can be incorporated into a range of different surfaces to mimic the sensation of touch. Currently we are at a very early stage of development, but the end result is for this technology to be able to be incorporated into your phone’s display, computer’s display, or tablet’s display to reproduce an instant tactile representation of any visual content.

As mentioned in the video, we are using a range of different technologies to accomplish this. The first is ultra sound, this will enable the display to change how smooth or harsh it feels to the user. The second is electrical impulses. This will enable the display to reproduce tactile Dots, lines and different shapes. And the last is Haptic Feedback. This last component of EyeSyght will enable the display to mimmic the sensation of depth.

This technology will give us the opportunity to feel a map on a screen in real time, feel any type of graph, chart, diagram, sketch, or picture that is being display visually. And the last part, is that it will also be able to reproduce braille.

My best description, is like TV for your fingers.

The idea came to me since working with visual content within the STEM fields is painfully slow, but I am sure that as we progress, more uses will become apparent.

I hope I was able to answer your questions, but please feel free to ask anything else that you would like to know.

Thanks for the interest, and please keep sharing and liking.
Santi

> On 1 Mar 2017, at 5:28 PM, Brandon Keith Biggs via Blindmath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello Santi,
> This just gives a very vague description of what you are trying to do. Help
> blind people touch pictures. I would really like some more description of
> what the user will experience.
> This is something I really would like to be able to do, but I don't
> understand how all those different technologies will give me an image or
> what image.
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Brandon Keith Biggs <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/ <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>>
> 
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Santiago Velasquez via Blindmath <
> blindmath at nfbnet.org <mailto:blindmath at nfbnet.org>> wrote:
> 
>> Good day to you all, I hope this email finds you well.
>> 
>> A few weeks back an organisation called Light House for the Blind launched
>> a competition called the Holman prize. They are based in San Francisco
>> California. The aim of the competition is to provide up to $25000 for an
>> idea that can benefit the blind community as well as the community at
>> large. Some Engineering friends and I entered into it  with an idea, it is
>> titled EyeSyght. The purpose of EyeSyght is to enable blind users to
>> instantly feel anything that is being displayed on a screen. However, the
>> applications are endless. the benefits that we have found outside of the
>> blind community range from Virtual reality, augmented reality, E-commerce,
>> medicine, and so much more. Having the sensation of a physical keyboard on
>> a touchscreen, being able to actually feel the textures in a virtual world,
>> and giving doctors the ability to operate a person without having to open
>> them up, while still having the same sensation as if their hands were
>> inside of them. This will all be possible. However, we need your, and your
>> friends assistance. To enter we had to submit a 90 second video pitch, and
>> to move to the second stage we need our video to have the most Youtube
>> likes.
>> 
>> Below is the link to the competition, and to our youtube video pitch.
>> Youtube video pitch:
>> https://youtu.be/NrkHrR5S0Nw <https://youtu.be/NrkHrR5S0Nw> <https://youtu.be/NrkHrR5S0Nw <https://youtu.be/NrkHrR5S0Nw>>
>> 
>> 
>> Link to the Holman Prize competition:
>> https://www.holmanprize.org/candidates/2017/2/27/santiago-would <https://www.holmanprize.org/candidates/2017/2/27/santiago-would>
>> 
>> 
>> If you think this is a worthwhile idea, I would appreciate if you are able
>> to share the Youtube video throughout your network of contacts, asking them
>> to like it on Youtube, and asking them to repeat the process with their
>> network of contacts.
>> 
>> Thank you very much for anything you are able to do.
>> Kind regards
>> Santi
>> 
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