[acbny-l] Re: FW: [The vOICe] Uniplan develops tactile PC image display for blind
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Subject: [acbny-l] FW: [The vOICe] Uniplan develops tactile PC image display
for blind
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Meijer [mailto:Peter.B.L.Meijer@xxxxxxxxxxx]=20
> Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 8:59 AM
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> Subject: [The vOICe] Uniplan develops tactile PC image display for blind
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> Hi All,
>
> For your information. Appended is an article
> from yesterday's Japan Economic Newswire about
> a new tactile matrix display.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Peter Meijer
>
>
> Seeing with Sound - The vOICe
> http://www.seeingwithsound.com/winvoice.htm
>
>
> Uniplan develops tactile PC image display for blind.
>
> MATSUE, Japan.
>
> Uniplan Ltd., a maker of welfare service equipment,
> said Thursday it has developed a 'tactile display'
> that enables the blind and people with severely
> impaired vision to recognize images and characters
> formed by protruding pins in response to data input
> with a personal computer.
>
> The horizontal display creates images and characters
> by raising or lowering by one millimeter the 3,000
> plastic pins on its surface which the blind can
> recognize by touch, Uniplan said.
>
> The computer controlling the display discerns images
> and characters input or drawn with the computer's
> keyboard, mouse or scanner, and the display arranges
> pin formations in just 18 seconds, the company told
> a news conference. The space between each pin is
> 2.5 mm.
>
> Uniplan President Masaaki Takahashi said the company
> will further improve the flat display 'so that the
> blind, including children who we hope will use it
> as a sort of dictionary, can use it daily.'
>
> Uniplan said it will start selling the display -
> measuring 16 centimeters in width and 12 cm in length
> - by March 31, 2005 at a low price to facilitate
> worldwide sales.
>
> 'We hope to price the display at approximately
> 300,000 yen ($2,750) and, if possible, we would like
> to give it an even lower price,' Takahashi said.
> The company said it has already received a proposal
> from a U.S. organization aiding the blind to jointly
> work on the display, as well as a price inquiry.
>
> An official at the Shimane Industrial Promotion
> Foundation, an entity affiliated with the Shimane
> prefectural government, said, 'The display may become
> a global standard as a widely used item of equipment
> for the blind.'
>
> The company said it plans to further improve the
> display so that it can project images and text on
> Internet sites onto the display.
>
> Source URL:
> http://www.snowbeast.net/blind/newsarticle.asp?u_id=3D1607
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