It’s true that traditional round shaped coins have many functional advantages for which we still stick with it. But think of something different than you have seen all your life as coins that can be much more handy and easy to spot. Japanese industrial designer Mac Funamizu has envisioned Infographic coins, a set of coins that can easily be remembered by those who are not much familiar with them. The coins have been designed keeping the pie chart in mind, so a person who knows how to read pie charts will find great convenience recognizing these coins even in dark nights. It’s not been notified by the designer that if the surface of the coins features Braille code, I am sure it would be great for visually handicapped persons if the answer is YES.
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The Squibble is a portable concept device with Braille interface that provides tactile, audio and high contrast visual feedback for visually impaired and blind people, allowing them accessing their mobile phones and other technologies easily. This stylish pockatable device features Bluetooth connectivity and offers the opportunity of personal interaction regardless of where it is being used. The internal arrangement of the Squibble has been emphasized on optimum use of the internal space and uses external metal chassis to make it rigid. 779 unltrasonic motors have been used to generate the tactile feedback via Braille and illuminated caps on every motor to provide visual readings.
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The Tactility is a specially designed mobile phone concept that will diminish the limitation of blind peoples being uncomfortable with traditional mobile phones. The usual mobile phones mainly focus on its aesthetics and functions, without thinking of the usability for a person who will not be able to see it. Moreover, different model handset contains different keyboard arrangements, as well as different operating menus that make it harder to operate a cell phone for blind people. The keyboard of Tactility is designed with Braille and features most commonly used function which will greatly reduce the hassle of blind people using it. The bottom of the phone comprises a circular ring where a chain can be attached to hang the phone around the neck of a blind person which will boost their convenience of using the phone.
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The Embossing Braille Printer concept is focused on making things easier for blind people. Most of the time, blind people recognize items through touch, smell and test. But difficulties arise when they encounter similar shapes items, while taking smell or testing everything is risky. The Embossing Braille Printer is designed to help blind people to identify similar characteristics items through using special embossed labels. The blind will input short information through a recorder with voice-recognition abilities for similar items like pill bottles, files or CDs. The labels are printed on a 25mm x 50mm label with Braille characters and then are attached with the corresponding items to avoid false identification.
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Braille phone is a universal cellular phone concept that is able to produce Braille code in a particular part of it by using Electric Active Plastic to make it usable for visually handicapped people. The phone has been designed in a simple and easy to use manner and looks like a television remote control. The Braille area provides all the information that a traditional screen of a cell phone displays so that visually impaired people can read them by touching it. It provides letter blocks in two by three dot matrixes and by using this principle on buttons, visually challenged people can easily create or read text messages. This braille phone just won Red Dot Awards 2009.
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