DocumentCode
5704
Title
Inside the world´s first braille cellphone [Resources_First Look]
Author
Anderson, Matthew
Volume
50
Issue
7
fYear
2013
fDate
Jul-13
Firstpage
25
Lastpage
25
Abstract
Around the world, 285 million people are blind or visually impaired; over a fifth of them, or nearly 63 million, live in India. Entrepreneur Sumit Dagar wants to be their Alexander Graham Bell: Sometime in the next 12 months he\´ll be rolling out the world\´s first braille cellphone. His company, Kriyate, has drawn up the first prototype, pictured here. Dagar says that test users found it difficult to imagine dynamic braille on such a small device. "But once they comprehend it, the joy is so immense. That\´s what makes us most happy." On the drawing board are plans for an even more advanced phone with a camera that can translate text to braille and images to raised relief figures on the device\´s "display."
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Spectrum, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9235
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MSPEC.2013.6545116
Filename
6545116
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