Braille text messaging phone

Telecoms Korea reports on Samsung Electronics' touch messenger phone developed specifically for blind users.

Blind users will be able to exchange text messages through the touch sense braille keyboard.

It won the excellence in design award at the 2006Industrial Designers Society of America awards (IDSA).

Current text messaging devices for the blind convert text to speech via a text reader, which negates the privacy and unobtrusiveness intended with this form of communication. With the Touch Messenger’s innovative screen and keyboard for Braille text messaging, blind users can now take advantage of this rapidly growing form of communication.

[via Engadget Mobile]

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emily | 10:31 PM | SMS for Deaf/Disabilities |
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