An Indian company has a smartphone for the blind developed. Instead of a touchscreen, the device is equipped with touch-sensitive pins of the memory metal. These are used for the user to braille to read.
The concept of the “smartphone for the blind” comes from the Indian student, interaction design, Sumit Dagar. He built a working prototype of a phone that a blind user can send sms-messages and e-mail to read by means of braille, so writes The Times of India.
The brailletekens be by means of an embossing of small pins on the screen of the phone is generated. The pins are made of memory wire, which, after deformation, are able to return to their original state. There is also a device from basic components that every mobile phone can be found. The first test with the blind would have shown that the prototypes are well received.
For its concept to convert to a concrete product Dagar, along with six others, the start-up Kriyate Design Solutions started. With the help of some startsubsidies and collaboration with other tech wants the business more and more sophisticated designs to build. This is how the company a lot of opportunities in haptic displays and software that allows for text scanning and real-time to convert to braille. Also, pictures would in this way for the blind felt can be made.