[vip_students] Re: Braille Mobile Phone
- From: "MICHELLE OCURRY, CO" <MICHELLE.OCURRY@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: vip_students <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:13:33 +0100 (WET-DST)
Oh My god, Francis the sooner that's on the market the better.
Thanks for the info.
Chow for now
Michelle.
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From: vip_students-bounce
Sent: 08 July 2010 13:21
To: trainingandsupport
Cc: vip_students
Subject: [vip_students] Braille Mobile Phone
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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