A company in India has developed a smartphone for the blind. The device, three years in the making, will be equipped to read text messages and emails, and it will then convert the text to Braille. It will utilize shape memory alloy technology, which exploits a metal's ability to "remember" its original shape. The phone's screen is not a screen so much as a grid of pins that move up and down to form the Braille characters required. Kriyate Design Solutions, which spearheaded the effort, was "incubated" at the Center for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship in Ahmedabad.
Monday, April 29, 2013
India to Get a Smartphone for the Blind
A company in India has developed a smartphone for the blind. The device, three years in the making, will be equipped to read text messages and emails, and it will then convert the text to Braille. It will utilize shape memory alloy technology, which exploits a metal's ability to "remember" its original shape. The phone's screen is not a screen so much as a grid of pins that move up and down to form the Braille characters required. Kriyate Design Solutions, which spearheaded the effort, was "incubated" at the Center for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship in Ahmedabad.
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