braille
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Tiny Gas Explosions Create the Raised Dots on This Electronic Braille Display
Creating dynamic Braille displays that can quickly change their pattern of dots isn’t a new idea, but the existing solutions are often big boxes with complex mechanisms used to raise and lower an array of rounded pins. Researchers from Cornell University are working on an explosive new approach that could produce dynamic braille displays that…
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LEGO’s Newest Sets Leverage The World’s Most Popular Toy To Teach Kids Braille
A couple of years ago, design agency Lew’LaraTBWA created a set of LEGO-like bricks that used the plastic stubs to recreate the patterns that make up the braille alphabet. It was such a clever way to help encourage blind or visually impaired children to learn braille that LEGO is officially releasing its own Braille Bricks…
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Moog Is Putting Braille On Its Synth So The Visually Impaired Can Jam
Moog just trotted out a new version of its popular Sub Phatty synth that has a braille overlay to help the visually impaired. It’s hard to believe it took the legendary manufacturer this long to get around to it, especially given that it’s actually a pretty simple modification to the panel’s design.
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An Interaction Designer Creates A Tactile Comic Book For The Blind
Comic books and visual novels are difficult to translate into Braille; Usually, they’re novelised or retold in audio formats. But is it possible to tell a visual story using tactile means alone? A Berlin-based interaction design student named Philipp Meyer thinks so.