The Haptic Reader – Braille reader makes non-Braille books accessible to the blind

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I fail to understand why some promising concepts never become real, though they have the desired requisites and the potential to make it big. Strangely, they fail to attract a manufacturer. Braille readers, in particular, are one example in that direction. As a concept, it builds a castle in the air promising the visually impaired a parallel life, but the reality is somewhat different.

Let’s hope that the Haptic Reader (HR), yet another promising Braille reader, after winning the 2009 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), could catch the manufacturers’ eyes. A device that makes non-Braille books accessible to the blind. It’s a flat tablet that a user can plant on book pages and it would turn the written into Braille.


Not enough as a manufacturer? Well, this gadget designed by researchers at Handong Global University and Keimyung University, both in South Korea, can even convert the scanned text into voice as well. How about that?

Via: NewScientist/EveryJoe

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