http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/ Engadget Comments for Researchers develop braille for vibrating touchscreen devices http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/
Sad truth is, you can't enjoy a touchscreen phone unless you have sight.

IMOB 123751495]]>Mar 31st 2009 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/Mar 31st 2009 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/Mar 31st 2009 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/Hours for an article. In one word: slow.

The idea isn't bad and it makes me happy to know someone is caring for those who are different from majority of us. But, IMO, adaptation isn't the best way here, it would be better if they made a new kind of touch screen with raising pins.]]>Mar 31st 2009 6:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/Mar 31st 2009 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/Mar 31st 2009 11:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/
Agreed.]]>Mar 31st 2009 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/Mar 31st 2009 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/Mar 31st 2009 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/I mean i always liked the idea, but the fact that you can't really use devices without physical keyboards because you can't really sense the limits of the pretty graphical buttons always put me off.
This could be a neat addition to a touchscreen, imagine the buttons getting a thin 0.3-0.5 mm raised border or smth, when you need it.]]>Mar 31st 2009 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/Mar 31st 2009 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/
ha ha i get it, really...not very funny.]]>Mar 31st 2009 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/
People have been working on ways to sort of simulate tactile feedback, a very essential thing on any interface, for touchscreens for a while. Faux raised buttons, anyone?]]>Mar 31st 2009 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/Mar 31st 2009 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/Mar 31st 2009 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/Mar 31st 2009 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/
(665 * 1.25) + (142 * .5) / 60

= 831.25 + 71 / 60

= 15.0375 minutes... over 15 minutes.]]>Mar 31st 2009 12:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/Mar 31st 2009 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/Mar 31st 2009 12:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/Mar 31st 2009 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/
before reading, i thought they made a screen that can morph into bumps]]>Mar 31st 2009 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/Mar 31st 2009 2:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/Mar 31st 2009 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/Mar 31st 2009 3:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/My daughter could use this device and make us all look like fools.]]>Mar 31st 2009 4:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/
People should be able to interact with their devices unobtrusively without bystanders being clued into what is going on by visual or audio cues. In this way a device could talk to its owner discretely.

The device could read a book, interact with Frink the programming language to perform calculations, or direct the user to waypoints via haptic feedback.

Initially input to the device would require non-discrete finger waving of sorts in the form of a virtual keyboard that won't require a surface. That is until I learn how to parse brain wave forms as means of user input to the device.

Realistically this would take some time to build as I'm only an undergrad EE/BME (junior technically). On the plus side I have access to V.I. testers and once I have sufficient momentum would not be opposed to making this an open source project. From my time (years) working with the blind and V.I. I have seen how this disability allows companies to charge outrageous prices for technologies far far away from cutting edge.

This behavior is in-excusable and I aim to fix that. Just because the VI are blind does not mean that they are fair game, nor should they be.]]>Mar 31st 2009 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/Mar 31st 2009 4:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/Mar 31st 2009 9:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/Apr 1st 2009 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/Apr 1st 2009 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/researchers-develop-braille-for-vibrating-touchscreen/Apr 4th 2009 4:07AM