Wednesday 12 October 2011

US Turn iPad to Braille

The greatest tablet in the world turns to braille, to allow the blind to enjoy the touch screen; as well as people who can see.
The US has built a new program for the iPad to let blind people operate the tablet. It works by placing eight fingers onto the screen, then the braille keyboard appears. To type you simply make different gestures with you fingers. People that can see and are used to normal keyboards, would probably be the most 'useless' in typing on the next generation of keyboards. Obviously, the blind will become experts at typing on the iPad.

"Instead of having fingers that find the buttons, we built buttons that find the fingers." said Sohan Dharmaraja, who is one of the researchers that thought of the idea and helped it come alive. This amazing new invention might be one of the best things designed for people that can't see. Now that this keyboard has been produced, the blind can enjoy the things that we can on the iPad. Of course, there's still the question if it actually works. Is all this really true? Can this really be what it seems? There are many questions that need to be answered, these are just a small fraction of them.

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