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Begin forwarded message: > From: "Sherri" <[email protected]> > Date: April 24, 2013, 4:29:40 PM GMT+05:30 > To: <[email protected]>, "NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List" > <[email protected]> > Subject: [Nfbf-l] first ever Braille Smart Phone could hit stores later this > year > Reply-To: NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List <[email protected]> > > > First-ever Braille smartphone could hit stores this year > Touch screen transforms images and text into touchable patterns, enabling > users to interpret facial expressions, maps, and graphics. > > > by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore > April 23, 2013 12:30 PM PDT > > During a video chat, a visually impaired user can touch the real-time image > of a friend's face and follow that person's facial expressions. > > (Credit: Sumit Dagar) > An interaction designer who makes sci-fi short films has spent the past > three years developing what he says is the world's first Braille-enabled > smartphone. He said that if testing goes well, the phones could hit stores > by the end of this year. > > Thanks in part to award money from Rolex, India-based designer Sumit Dagar > has been collaborating with the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and L V > Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad to develop a prototype. The smartphone > employs a haptic touch screen that elevates and depresses the content it > receives, thereby transforming the data into touchable patterns. Yes, this > phone is essentially a shapeshifter. > > Dagar demonstrated the phone's capabilities during a 2011 Ted Talk. (See > video below.) He noted that visually impaired users would be able to touch > the real-time image of a person on video chat and follow that person's > facial expressions. He also showed how the technology would help users > interpret maps, play games, and more. > > The hardware comprises a sophisticated grid of tiny pins that move up and > down to accommodate text and images. It uses shape-memory alloy technology > to expand and/or contract to its original shape after use. > > "Technology is giving everyone superpowers, but many blind people are not > able to tap into these cool, new features, and the technology is making them > even more disabled," Dagar said in a Rolex interview. "So I decided to do > something that could reach out to this population." > > No word yet on what the phone will cost, but I'm going to recommend that > early adopters insure their phones. > > Sumit Dagar - Touch screen phone for the visually impaired. - YouTube frame > > > > Sherri Brun > [email protected] > Character is the side of yourself you choose to show the world. > Integrity is what you do, what you say and how you act when you think no one > is paying attention. > NFBF Newsline® chair > www.nfbnewsline.org > E-mail: [email protected] > http://nfbfgoc.org > _______________________________________________ > Nfbf-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbf-l_nfbnet.org > To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for Nfbf-l: > http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbf-l_nfbnet.org/taraprakash%40gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.accessindia.org.in/pipermail/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in/attachments/20130424/faea0c1f/attachment.html> Search for previous postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] _______________________________________________ Mobile.accessindia mailing list [email protected] http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in to post send mail to: [email protected]
