World’s First Braille Smartwatch has Tactile Dots for Users to Feel Messages on Screen
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Watch: Braille Bricks could help teach blind and sighted kids literacy — but they need everyone’s help.
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What a fucking brilliant idea. Boost the fuck outta this!
WHERE IS THE KICKSTARTER?
This is so awesome like holy geeze. I’ve got tools and a lot of time. If anyone wants me to make one of these, get me the legos and I’ll make it for you. I’ll even engrave the tops so that people who CAN see can read it too. All you’d have to do is tilt the board.
Bonuses: easy to edit. And at the end of the day? You can still play with them like regular legos. It would be a fun challenge to build around the braille bricks too, because their shape is altered.
Beyond Braille
Add Tactile Picture Books to the list of cool things 3-D printers can do. We’ve all experienced picture books with textured patches for itty bitty kiddie hands to graze over while they glance at the pictures and listen to the story. But not everyone has been able to have the same experiences. Until now, visually impaired children were left out of the picture part of picture books.
Thanks to the emerging technology of 3-D printing, classic storybooks like Harold and the Purple Crayon, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and Goodnight Moon have become more accessible. The 2-D pictures in those storybooks have been run through a 3-D printer, resulting in the sculpted scenes pictured above.
Now that the 3-D printed images sit alongside the braille words, visually impaired readers can engage in picture book reading in a whole new way. The future of this technology hopes to put the power in the hands of the parent who would be able to snap a photo of a 2-D page, send it to a printer, and produce their own Tactile Picture Book for their own kids.
Source: NPR
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