Smartphone for the Visually Impaired | Blind

There are lots of benefits of using a Smartphone in the present world. However, the technology has not yet reached everyone. Especially the visually impaired or blind peoples are completely deprived of all the benefits of a Smartphone.

A group of researchers from India has brought good news for visually impaired persons. They have taken the initiative to create a Braille Smartphone for the blind. Some Smartphone now have some applications facility for visual impairments. But researchers are planning to make a more effective Braille Smartphone.

How it will works?

This Smartphone screen will be use the 'Safe Memory Alloy' technology. It can create touch-sensitive signals (dots) on certain phone displays. In this case when a message or an e-mail will appear on the Smartphone, there will be a dotted Braille-shaped letter on the display. Visually impaired people can decipher by touching those letters on the Smartphone screen.

Sumit Dugar is leading the research on the Braille Smartphone technology. Recently in an interview published in the Times of India, he said that the world's first Braille Smartphone will behave like a companion, it will not just a cell phone.

He has been working with Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi to create a Braille Smartphone model. The research is underway at LV Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad. Researchers are optimistic that the Braille Smartphone will be marketed by the end of 2013 and the estimated price will be US$ 185.


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