[vip_students] Braille Mobile Phone
- From: "Francis Kane" <francis.kane@xxxxxxx>
- To: <trainingandsupport@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 13:20:43 +0100
Hi all,
I just came across this interesting information.
Samsung's Braille mobile phone for the visually impaired won the Gold Award at
the Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA).
The Touch Messenger is a product designed by Samsung Design China based in
Shanghai, China, a country with about 9 million visually impaired people. It
gives them a user-friendly cell phone experience on par with sighted users.
The innovative Touch Messenger enables the visually impaired users to send and
receive Braille text messages. The 3×4 button on the cell phone is used as two
Braille keypads and text messages can be checked through the Braille display
screen in the lower part. Current text messaging devices for the blind convert
text to speech via a text reader. With the Touch Messenger's innovative screen
and keyboard for Braille text messaging, blind users can now take advantage of
this rapidly growing form of communication.
Once this product is commercialized, it is expected to dramatically boost the
quality of life for visually impaired people, numbering as many as 180 million
worldwide.
The Touch Messenger is considered by Samsung a demonstration of the future
design direction, "human-oriented high-tech products."
Francis.
Francis Kane
I.T. Trainer & Support Worker
NCBI Working for People with Sight Loss
Galway - Mayo - Roscommon
francis.kane@xxxxxxx
www.ncbi.ie
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