[nfb-talk] Samsung wins award for braille Phone

[David Andrews]

>
>Samsung wins award    Samsung wins award for Braille mobile
>
>July 4, 2006, 10:22 GMT
>
>Korean technology giant Samsung Electronics announced on Monday
>that it had
>won a gold award at the Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA)
>sponsored
>by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) and Business
>Week.
>
>Samsung won the gold award for its Braille mobile phone, the Touch
>Messenger, which was designed by the company's Shanghai-based
>Samsung Design
>China division.
>
>The Touch Messenger allows visually impaired users to send and
>receive
>Braille text messages, with the company revealing that the product
>was
>developed in line with its global design strategy of gaining
>inspiration
>from local needs, in this case the needs of the nine million
>visually
>impaired inhabitants of China.
>
>It is anticipated that once the Touch Messenger is commercialised
>it will
>increase the quality of life for the world's 180 million visually
>impaired.
>
>Users will be able to use two Braille keypads on the phone to send
>messages,
>while a Braille display screen on the lower part of the phone will
>allow
>them to read incoming messages.
>
>http://tech.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1177846.php/Samsung_wins_awa
>
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