The Omnifer iPad case design is meant to make the iPad more usable for the blind, creating a space that raises up braille characters depending what's on screen.
Snail is a Braille concept device that's shaped like a Rollerblade wheel (or a snail's shell) that helps make reading the bumpy printed language a much more intuitive and satisfying activity. Thanks to intelligent sensors, the visually impaired do not need to learn anything. Simply roll the Snail over any Braille and it'll convert it to speech and beam it to a paired Bluetooth headset.
A prototype hydraulic and latching mechanism could bring to blind computer users something they've never had before: a full-page. Right now, refreshable Braille displays are slow and unwieldy, allowing a user access to the equivalent of one line of text...
Rubik's cubes are awful, frustrating objects. Sure, if you like a challenge I'm sure there's some fun to be had there, but to me, they're just pure pain. And this Rubik's cube for the blind? Forget it. But this wasn't...
Braille labelers have been around for a while, but they're clumsy and prone to mistakes. A design team from MIT has produced the 6dot Braille Labeler. This portable embosser electronically produces adhesive labels using a standard Braille keyboard. The 6dot...
We've seen plenty of ideas for Braille enabled cell phones over the years, but most of them are pretty useless for those of us who can't read all of those little raised dots. The Universal Phone from designer Seunghan Song...
Designer Zhenwei You's B-Touch cell phone would give blind users the same kind of multifunctional versatility that the iPhone enjoys. Instead of a glossy touchscreen, the B-Touch instead has a Braille interface that'll allow sightless navigation through the phones proposed...
With the advent of Amazon's Kindle, we are all now only too familiar with the e-reader. The technology, which uses E Ink is the technophile's answer to a book (although this technophile would rather have her shelves groaning from the...
What kind of phone would a blind person use? I'll give you a hint: It's not an iPhone 3G. No, such a phone would have to eschew any fancy touchscreen for something more tactile, certainly — something like the...
How would you tell time if you were blind? I mean, aside from implanting cybernetic eyes so you could look at a clock. Right, exactly — you'd get yourself a Braille watch. Conceived by David Chavez, the Haptica Braille...