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24 April 2013 [12:52] - Today.Az
World’s first smartphone for blinds has been invented by an Indian techie Sumit Dagar, an alumnus of Indian Institute of Design.
So you thought that smart-phones were meant only for those who had eyes. If that was the case, you were completely off the mark. Now there is the world’s first smart-phone launched for those people who don’t have eyes to enjoy the world. But the world’s first and only smart-phone for blind is here and believe me it is not anything less smart than your own smart-phones.
The concept of the handset is great. Even the people who don’t have eyes will be able to send and receive text messages, and emails from their smart-phones and also read them. The best thing about the handset is the fact that it converts everything intro brail, be it text or signs, and so the people using it will have no problem in using it as swiftly as anyone uses it from among us.
The handset has been developed in Gandhi’s land, Ahmedabad and reports suggest that this is the frist such smart-phone not just in India, but in the whole world. Sumit Dagar who has developed the handset for the blind says, “We have created the world’s first Braille smartphone…This product is based on an innovative ‘touch screen’ which is capable of elevating and depressing the contents it receives to transform them into ‘touchable’ patterns… The response during the test has been immense. It comes out as a companion more than a phone to the user. We plan to do more advanced versions of the phone in the future”.
Sumit Dagar, an alumnus National Institute of Design (NID) says that he realised sometimes ago as to how much the people who were without eyes felt without their own smart-phones while the whole world enjoyed it. Right now Dagar is busy in collaborating with Indian Institute of Delhi and is working on prototype. Reports suggest that the handset for blind uses Shape Memory Alloy technology, based on the concept that metals remember their original shapes. This smart-phone’s ‘screen’ instead of being touch comes with a grid of pins, that can be moved up and down as per requirement. And this grid comes with a Braille display. but to be true, the idea is still in prototype stage and it will still take years to come out in the market.
/Nvonews.Com/
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