[Blindtlk] FW: [acb-l] Fw: Former professor creates vibrating Braille handset

[Eric Calhoun]

Original Message: 
From: "Christopher McMillan" <chrismcmillan at earthlink.net>
To: <acb-l at acb.org>
Subject: [acb-l] Fw: Former professor creates vibrating Braille handset
Date: 
Tue, 8 Apr 2008 12:53:21 -0500

From: Darren Murph
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 10:43 AM
Subject: Former professor creates vibrating Braille handset

http://www.fareastgizmos.com/mobile_phones/worlds_first_vibrating_braille_ce
ll_phone_developed_in_japan.php

Filed under: Cellphones
Braille phones in and of themselves aren't all that unique, but a former 
professor (who just so happens to be completely blind) from Tsukuba 
University of Technology has crafted a variant that jumps and jives.
Dubbed 
the world's first vibrating Braille cellphone, the device is programmed
to 
emit pulses depending on which key is pressed; more specifically, a pair
of 
terminals attached to the handset "vibrate at a specific rate to create a

message." Those currently involved with the project are now toiling to
make 
the keypad-to-vibration converters smaller, but there's no word just yet
on 
whether the technology will be picked up commercially.

Sincerely,

Christopher McMillan, CIO
CEEK Technology
Telephone:	203 404 7275
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WM:	chrismcmillan at ceektech.com

 


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