A new smartphone has been designed by Sumit Dagar for the blind people. They will be able to read SMSs and emails with the help of the smartphone.
After sending an SMS or email in any language to this smartphone, it converts it into blind-friendly braille. Dagar holds a postgraduate degree from the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad. He is now working together with the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
Sumit Dagar said, "We have created the world's first braille smartphone. This product is based on an innovative 'touchscreen' which is capable of elevating and depressing the contents it receives to transform them into 'touchable' patterns."
The smartphone designed for the blind, uses Shape Memory Alloy technology, which is based on the concept that metals remember their original shapes, i.e. expand and contract to its original shape after use. This screen will be capable of elevating and depressing the contents to form patterns in braille. The phone's “screen” has a grid of pins, which will move up and down as per requirement.
