Technology makes life easier, for people with
visual impairments and blindness, since they can have access to technology and
have a better way to live; here there are some
devices and equipment of the latest
technology.
BRAILLE
SPOKEN:
This is one of the devices more accepted among people
with visual disabilities. It is a handheld, lightweight and portable (half
kilo) and small Braille spoken (like a paperback book) that is used to store
and process information.
It also has several functions to read and write and to communicate with
other systems through its unit. Data input is done through braille keyboard and
output of information is performed through a voice synthesizer. It is a text
editor to manage and process information, address book, calendar (date and
time), stopwatch, dictionary and calculator.
TALKING CALCULATORS:
The devices are similar in appearance to conventional
calculators but these also have mechanisms voice sound reproduced by the keys
pressed and the results are shown.
TRANSLATOR DICTIONARY:
Electronic device similar to an agenda, that use an
alphabetic keyboard; this allow you enter words for translation, and this
process is done by synthesizing audible voice. It performs functions of translation
from Spanish to English, or English to Spanish.
TALKING WATCHES:
Watches and prerecorded voice sounds built for the
user to perform actions such as listening and changing the time, setting the
alarm and selecting different alarm sounds. They come in bracelet and desktop
type, in different languages.
TALKING THERMOMETER:
It is a conventional device by prerecorded voice and
sound that informs the user body temperature.
NAVIGATION BRACELET
This device provides blind people a level of
independence that is currently impossible for many of them, This Bracelet simply
makes that blind people can navigate easy and fast in a new city. The system
relies on voice commands, audio and haptic feedback.
BRAILLE POLAROID CAMERA
The Braille Polaroid Camera acts as an instant braille
printer, translating the basic shape of an object into texture, so that the
blind can collect “images” in an album.
“TOUCH COLOR” PAINTING TABLET
The Touch Color tablet uses thermal energy and a hand-held
color wheel to create works of art. The color wheel can even capture actual
colors from a user’s environment and transmit it to the tablet.
B TOUCH MOBILE PHONE
This phone is entirely done in braille. It allows the
user to call and talk to people, or even send text messages that they receive
in braille. This is a big thing since a lot of the world is wireless, so why
shouldn’t they be? They can even do voice commands, and have the messages sent
over text or have them read back to them.
TACTILE FLASH CARDS
Now users can see what they feel through flashcards that give them
different textures for different areas and things. They have ones for the zoo
and for places such as the beach and forests. They have a lot of different ones
that can teach those that are blind more about the world around them.
SMARTPHONE FOR BLIND PEOPLE
The unique innovative smartphone for visually challenged
persons. The smartphone uses Shape Memory Alloy technology, based on the
concept that metals remember their original shapes, i.e. expand and contract to
its original shape after use. The
phone's 'screen' has a grid of pins, which move up and down as per requirement.
The grid has a Braille display, where pins come up to represent a character or
letter. This screen will be capable of elevating and depressing the contents to
form patterns in Braille.
REFERENCES
weburbanist.com/.../12-ingenious-gadgets-technologies
https://nfb.org/technology-resource-list
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