Georgia Tech researchers have built an iPhone app that aims to be a complete solution for texting without the need to look at the screen.
BrailleTouch is an open-source app that incorporates the Braille writing system. It aims to address the limitations of soft keyboards, which do not provide tactile feedback.
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20 February 2012
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Over the past couple of years, we've come across plenty of special devices meant to make life just a bit easier for the people suffering from various vision-related disabilities (including blindness), and that's exactly the case with the particular product we'll talk about as follows, namely the Haptic... |
7 February 2011
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A group of experts from the North Carolina State University (NC State) has taken it upon itself to promote the research and development of a new type of computer screen. The innovation, which is nearly completed, is meant to help blind people make the most out of their online experience, and also to make it easier fo... |
29 March 2010
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The Braille system is one of the most reliable methods of communication between people who can see and those who can't. It relies on the blind touching a series of elevated dots, which dictate what letter or number they “see.” While books written in this language have been around for quite some time,... |
16 August 2009
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Spice Telecom, an India-based company, announced that it would introduce, in the next two months, an affordable Braille mobile phone for all the users that are visually impaired. The announcement came during the release of Spice's "People Phone", sold for only 599 INR and presented by the company as the cheapest... |
11 June 2008
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The Siafu concept is designed to allow visually impaired people to enjoy an intuitive computing experience. The technology is currently being developed, but, when fully baked, promises to give impaired persons access into the digital world.The technology behind the Siafu computer is based on a tablet-flat touch-sensi... |
15 March 2008
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Apple has released three updates via Mac OS X's Software Update. iPhoto 7.1.2 addresses issues with publishing photos, improving overall stability. ProKit 4.5 adds reliability to Apple's professional applications. Braille Display Update 1.0 delivers a bit more than the other two updates, particularly adding... |
6 February 2008
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NASA has succeeded in doing what nobody has tried before, by putting colored images of the skies at the fingertips of more than 10 million visually impaired people living on the territory of the United States. Some of the best images of the night sky ever taken have been made available for the blind into a 60-page bo... |
21 January 2008
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A couple of researchers in Sweden came up with a weird idea of creating a new kind of paper, which is going to give life to your posters.Well, the paper can literally play sounds. It uses a combination of technology including the revolutionary e-ink, to embed digital information in each sheet. Nowadays, we can see ho... |
7 June 2007
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Ten years ago, blind people had limited means of accessing computers. But things are changing. New hi-tech products are now helping blind people to read e-mails or search for information on the Internet. You probably heard of the screen reader, an application that attempts to describe to the blind user in speech what... |
20 April 2007
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Korean manufacturer Samsung has recently unveiled a Braille mobile phone that is meant to offer visually impaired users a way of sending and receiving text messages from their friends and loved ones. The handset, dubbed 'Touch Messenger' was designed by Samsung Design China, based in Shanghai and it targets... |
16 April 2007
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