It’s the $20, tho… replacing that racist asshole Andrew Jackson…
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Thank you 
, I fixed it.
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Winner of the AMV (anime music video) contest at this years AWA:
Warning - it’s very glitchy and flashy.
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I want a set!
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That’s a cool idea. I thought Braille was dying out now that text to speech is happening.
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It is from what I understand, but it’s also kind of too bad, because a person comfortable with Braille can read faster and better than a sighted person.
I saw a video once done by a blind software developer. She has this neat gadget that uses little pegs to write her current line of code in Braille. She’d read with one hand and navigate using the cursor keys on her keyboard with the other hand, and she was editing very quickly.
I can’t find the video, but I think this is her:
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I don’t think it really caught on. I heard from a blind person years ago that only about 10% of blind people know braille.
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Oh, it’s always cute at first.
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This was my first thought.
I mean, what if you’re walking your dog and it wants to tell you it can sense danger nearby, but you misinterpret its actions because the translator-board is at home?
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Have you ever seen braille computer monitors? Not only are they ridiculously expensive, but they have so many moving parts (motors and tiny levers to push/pull pins up into certain positions). So even the little half-line ones (40 characters) cost thousands of dollars and need frequent maintenance.
I thought with our technology we should be able to use a cellphone camera to scan text and OCR it but instead of a touchscreen have it be mouse-like with haptic feedback under the fingers to emulate braille bumps. Then you could read any printed thing - book, restaurant menu, form, etc. Did some research and found out other people (who could potentially actually make it) had thought of it too and are trying to do the same thing already, but hadn’t been really successful yet. IIRC, it kinda worked but the current haptic technology’s resolution wasn’t great, so it was like blurry/staticy, so it’s kinda still in the prototype phase.
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They couldn’t use electromagnets?
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You could have a patent there.
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Personally I was thinking piezoelectric crystals. Electric current makes the crystals swell up forming bumps.
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Possibily a grid of tubes. Using electrophoresis force liquid into specific areas causing parts to rise above the surface or drop below it, creating a topological picture.
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I swear I can picture a device using electomagnets or something to raise pins for this purpose but darned if I can recall any more.
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Astonishingly, this actually works.
I’m blind as a bat; I can barely see well enough without my glasses to avoid running into walls. But with the trick from the video, I can read text from across the room.
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I think squinting has the same effect.
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