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Blind Assistance with Haptic Reader Monday, November 02, 2009 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Picture Of The Day >> Gadgets   
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| Non-Braille books are made accessible to the blind with the Haptic Reader, designed by researchers at Handong Global University and Keimyung University, both in South Korea. When placed on a page, the reader scans typed letters and converts them to their Braille equivalent on the device's upper surface. | ||||||||||
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| The Haptic Reader looks like a flatbed scanner, in this case users place their typed text on the scanner and it’s converted into Braille by raising the surface of the device on the opposite side of the paper. The text can also be converted to speech. The reader is also capable of producing text to voice files for those cases in which Braille isn’t convenient or for non-blind readers looking to create a voice file from their typed text. (Source: David Lee and Yuna Kim, Handong Global University, South Korea, and Hansub Lee, Keimyung University, South Korea) |
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