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There are several already made Braille products existing in the market. However, other than heavy and large in size, most of them are also highly priced. B&D messenger was designed to solve these problems. We intended to design following aspects: Cost effectiveness and Functionality. General Braille display or TTY system that are available right now are too expensive in price. To reduce its cost, B&D Messenger is built with an open source platform, Arduino and Processing. Currently, in order to keep the price low and affordable, a basic B&D messenger still runs by a connection to a computer, however if the user seeks portability a wireless connection can be made by ordering an optional Bluetooth module that can be easily attached on to the micro controller. In addition, by running under the Internet, no cost will be needed for sending and receiving messages. Small and Light. To accomplish this objective, all of the adopting materials we choose are lightweight. The triangle shape is chosen to be consistent with the other existing devices and the design was limited in accordance with the LCD size. Do-It-Yourself. B&D Messenger is designed to have a less complex construct. The case should be easy to make and ensemble with a recycled hard paper attached inside the kit. All basic electronic parts come with customized and presoldered state.

Designer : Jaeyoon, Kang and Noriaki Okada

Designer : Sean McGreevy

The world-famous Coca-Cola and Korean online games entered into a partnership.

Korea SW Industry Promotion Agency (KIPA) plans to work with Coca-Cola in Hong Kong to market Korea-made online games on the Global Service Platform (GSP) and promote Korea-made online games in the global market.

For this purpose, KIPA dispatched Vice President Taek Min Kwon of the Digital Contents Business Group and working staff to Hong Kong and signed an MOU on joint promotion with Coca-Cola Hong Kong (General Manager Mei So) on the 15th. Korea-made online games will be marketed to Coca-Cola consumers in Hong Kong on the online platform.

To start the joint marketing, KIPA will exchange banners on www.gameengame.com, which introduces Korea-made online games, and www.icoke.hk with Coca-Cola.

Korea-made online game makers on the GSP platform will be permitted to make rare items using Coca-Cola?s brand and images and use its logo and brand in the games.

As the global partner of Korea-made online games, Coca-Cola Hong Kong will link its Homepage (www.icoke.hk) to a Webpage of GSP-based games with various images and motion pictures from the games. Also, members of the Coca-Cola Homepage will receive regular e-mail ads.

KIPA?s strategy is to use this MOU and the brand name of world-famous Coca-Cola to contribute to the global awareness of Korea-made online games and to utilize Coca-Cola?s powerful offline marketing know-how in the online media for maximum synergies.

GSP is KIPA?s special program to sponsor Korea-made online game exporters in the global market. Through this program, KIPA sponsors small/medium companies that lack resources or capital to promote distribution or marketing overseas. KIPA provides www.gamengame.com that is open to any gamer in the world, along with the privilege to use all infrastructures, including the servers, for six months.

According a KIPA official, more than 5 million gamers a year are accessing www.gamengame.com to play Korea-made games in the world.

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