[gui-talk] Fwd: Real-Time Text-to-Braille Scanner

[Steve Pattison]

>From: Wired News: Top Stories news: Top Stories
>
>Looking like a cross between the original iPod 
>Shuffle and a vinyl record cleaner, the Blind 
>Reader Bridge translates text on the fly into 
>braille and saves it to hard-disk. And it 
>downloads data from the internet. In Gear Factor.
>
>blind reader-translate letters to braille -"bridge"
>
>red dot award: design concept 2006
>
>design:
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>  <http://www.red-dot.sg/concept/porfolio/06/07ic/blindreader/togo.jpg>
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>Beijing Togo/Trio Digital Visual Tech Co., Ltd
>
>
>
>Concept category: interaction & 
>communication  <http://www.togodesign.com.cn/> 
><mailto:market at togodesign.com.cn>
>
>
>A new world of reading material can be opened up 
>to blind readers with this “bridgeâ€Â between printed words and Braille.
>e.
>
>For a long time, the blind can only read scarce 
>Braille books of a narrow scope, missing out on 
>much of the reading pleasure enjoyed by people 
>with normal sight. Is there any way to make the 
>blind be able to read printworks that ordinary 
>people can read only? Blind 
>reader-“Bridgeâ€Â allows the blind to read 
>printed works. When it is scanning the text in 
>books or other presswork, it translates the text 
>into braille, which is then displayed on its 
>special screen for the blind to touch. At the 
>same time, “Bridgeâ€Â saves the text into 
>the internal hard disk to be read later. In 
>addition, the product can download data from the 
>Internet. So that it can fit books of different 
>sizes, it has been designed with a foldaway 
>shape. The user can delete files on demand. In 
>order to allow users more convenient reading, 
>the Braille screen can display a column of words 
>only. The device is easy to operate, with easily 
>identified functional divisions. It is small and 
>easy to carry, allowing it to be used anywhere.
>where.
>
>How does it work? The braille screen works with 
>electromagnetic or piezoelectric principles. 
>When the current or voltage goes through every 
>array of six stitches, the resulting rise and 
>decline gives birth to braille. The product 
>scans the original printed matter, then 
>translates the images into analog electrical 
>signals with an optical-to-electrical 
>transducer. Finally, it translates the analog 
>electrical signal into a digital signal.

Regards Steve
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