E-book readers have long been touted as a great help to people with poor vision thanks to their ability to enlarge the font size.
Now Seon-Keun Park, Byung-Min Woo, Sun-Hye Woo and Jin-Sun Park have gone one step further to create an electronic reading device which can display... braille.
According to the article on
Yanko Design :
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Visually challenged people require braille books in order to read. However, not many books are available in braille due to cost and inefficiency. Translating a 500 page book into braille nearly doubles the thickness. EAP is a technology that can dynamically change the surface pattern by way of an electromagnetic signal - simulating braille text. Not exactly a new idea but a nice executive nonetheless.
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This device could open whole new worlds of books to the blind. Let's hope this prototype makes it into production soon.
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via
Gizmodo.