• 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