Monday 22 April 2013
'World's first Braille smartphone' designed, due at less than Rs. 10,000
Posted on 00:08 by Maria Scott
Sumit Dagar has a postgraduate degree
from the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad. He claims has
always had a need to do something for the sections of society that have
been neglected by the masses. To that end, Dagar is developing a
smartphone that can be used by the visually challenged section of
society.
Dagar wanted to design the smartphone
during his study at the NID. He decided to use the Braille language on
the smartphone to facilitate the visually challenged to recognize
numbers and words on the smartphone by touching it.
"We have created the world's first Braille smartphone," said Dagar to International Business Times.
"This product is based on an innovative 'touch screen' which is capable
of elevating and depressing the contents it receives to transform them
into 'touchable' patterns."
A prototype of the smartphone was
developed by Dagar in collaboration with IIT Delhi. It has been in
development since the past two years at LV Prasad eye institute in
Hyderabad.
"The response during the test has been
immense. It comes out as a companion more than a phone to the user. We
plan to do more advanced versions of the phone in the future," Dagar
told The Times of India.
The “world’s first Braille smartphone”
is expected to rollout by the end of 2013 and will be priced around the
Rs. 10,000 mark. The smartphone will help the blind read text messages,
emails, graphs, images and more.
According to the Economic Times,
“The smartphone uses Shape Memory Alloy technology, which is based on
the concept that metals remember their original shapes i.e expand and
contract to its original shape after use This screen will be capable of
elevating and depressing the contents to form patterns in Braille. The
phone's 'screen' has a grid of pins, which will move up and down as per
requirement.”
Source: http://www.thinkdigit.com/Mobiles-PDAs/Worlds-first-Braille-smartphone-designed-due-at_14312.html
Source: http://www.thinkdigit.com/Mobiles-PDAs/Worlds-first-Braille-smartphone-designed-due-at_14312.html
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