Hi All, I think it is still in the design stage and also as per my knowledge the Yanko design is a mere design house that designs almost everything in small and medium sized products. I am sure that this is being developed by some company for the benefit of the Vi community. lets look forward to the same, good to know information though.
Regards, Sarvesh Makhija. Pune On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Wahid Raza <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > hope all are doing fine > pasting below a short and intrusting article, which get from another list. > Regards > Wahid > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > DrawBraille Concept Is a Smartphone for the Blind > By Joshua Schnell, PCWorld Feb 23, 2012 12:03 PM > > [Photo: Shikun Sun/Yanko Design]For many people, smartphones are an > indispensable part of their lives: Email, games, music, a camera--all > instantly accessible wherever you go. But not everyone can fully enjoy > the benefits of a smartphone. For the visually impaired, a lot of the > convenience of a smartphone is lost. That's where a new concept > smartphone comes in: DrawBraille is a smartphone concept that's > tailored for the visually impaired. > > The left side of the DrawBraille phone is the display; it has a series > of mechanical dots in groups of six that can display Braille > characters for you to read. There are five rows, each containing seven > groups of six dots. For messages that cannot be conveyed in that > space, there are page up and down buttons to the left of the display > area for scrolling. > > The right side of the phone is the input area and contains twenty > touch-sensitive squares arranged in five rows of four. The middle six > squares represent the six possible dots that form a Braille character. > You enter each character by touching the correct squares, sliding your > finger from one to the next either within the six squares that > represent the Braille character, or if the dots are not connected, by > using the outside squares. Lifting your finger completes the > character, allowing you to move onto the next. > > Five dots along the side of the device signal battery life, with each > dot representing 20 percent of the battery's charge capacity. In > addition to making calls, you can use the phone for email, music, and > book reading. In this concept, the input area would come programmed > with a variety of commands that would let you navigate a series of > menu options. > > Head on over to Yanko Design for lots of mockups of what this phone > would look like. > > Voice command functions certainly allow the visually impaired to make > use of current smartphones, but DrawBraille has the potential to > increase functionality and ease-of-use, customizing the experience. It > would be interesting to see the types of apps that could be developed > for such a phone, further enhancing its functionality and perhaps > given it a few advantages over current smartphones. > > [Yanko Design via Ubergizmo] > > --- > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > [email protected] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > -- Thanks Regards Sarvesh.Makhija (Saru) Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
