Tablet for the blind has touch screen in braille – Revista Saturday

Tablet for the blind in Braille features touch screen

The Austrian company Blitab created a technology that allows blind people to access content on the Internet and read books in a very special tablet

17:25 • Nuno Passion Blonde

The Austrian company Blitab created a technology that allows the blind to consume digital content through a special tablet that has a touch screen that displays the braille system.

The visually impaired may use the accessibility features of the platforms furniture, but the main objective of the new device is to contribute to literacy in Braille.

But how does a touch screen can show the raised dots of braille language?
tablet screen is made with a special liquid that synthesizes the text content to braille, ie from small bubbles on the screen, the blind can read with your fingers and surf the net, read books, play graphics and even maps.

The Blitab has no connection without Wi-Fi Wireless, but it has USB and network, so the user can convert the contents of the USB stick, as web pages or NFC tags to braille.

prototype was 26 presented a Hello Tomorrow conference in Paris, and is expected to hit the market in September 2016 with a price of around 2,500 euros. It’s a lot, but

A tablet-screen braille

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