Solar-powered wristwatch, necklace for the blind

While there's definitely no shortage of watches that serve a greater purpose than merely telling time, Jeonjun Cho, a sophomore at Kyungki University in Korea, has developed a timepiece that does nothing more than display the current time to the blind. His braille clock collection has both aesthetes and utilitiarians covered, as the sleek silver finish makes for a snazzy piece of 2001-esque jewelry, and the solar-powered braille ticker allows the blind to check the time without consulting their RFID-enabled robot tagalong. The necklace and watch each share the same readout, which is composed of simple "dots, lines, and planes," all basic factors of creating braille numbers. So if you've got a visually impaired pal who hasn't picked up a talking cellphone to keep him / her on schedule, these fashionable timepieces could be just the thing to keep things on track.

[bigmiz @ Sep 17th 2006 9:43AM]

ummm, i want one

[Pingspike @ Sep 17th 2006 9:53AM]

Excelent idea, good implementation and they look pretty nifty too. 5 stars tbh.

[Raymond @ Sep 17th 2006 9:59AM]

Why worry about how it looks? Thier blind.

[Russell Stuever @ Sep 17th 2006 10:43AM]

All of the Aes Sedai readers are now nervous. Sorry ladies.

[Mithun Paul @ Sep 17th 2006 3:06PM]

i feel the way they look matters a lot cause blind people see more by a sense of touch. How they make out the form of an object is through touch. So i guess it woul dbe very much important. EVne their sense of touch would be more advanced over our sense of touch. they would be able to assimilate the object more intensely than we probably would. A very exciting design. And a lovely one too. totally fits the piture of design can be done for everyone. A piece of art to be precise.

[kylei @ Mar 14th 2007 6:00PM]

every one needs to stop picking on sanjaya malakar on american idol if they don't the'll be straited out! sanjaya is just 17 give him a brack he can't help it. he the younght male.the only bad comlamet from me is he need to speak(sing) louder!now that there is a bigger band he needs to sing louder than them. to me he did much better on diana ross' Aint' no Mount. High Enough. he sang much louder. and he is NOT gay and if you say that eather you will also be straited out!just becusehis hair is long and he has a girly voice doesn't mean he is. he has long hair because he is indian. that's what indians do! well still he is REALLY cute!

[Amber @ Sep 17th 2006 5:03PM]

This is very interesting indeed. My younger brother is blind. Hopefully this will go out on the market before Christmas '06. He'll be very pleased. :D

[rench @ Sep 18th 2006 2:29AM]

burger king solved this problem years ago with that free simpsons talking watch they were giving away. doh!