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Braille Concept Phone for the Visually Impaired

Categories: Concept/Design, Devices
By: , IntoMobile
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 at 6:59 AM

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Now here’s a useful and inspiring concept design. Designer Seonkeun Park has put together a Braille Concept Phone for those with visual impairments. The phone of course has a Braille keypad, but more importantly than that is the top ‘screen’. This area of the phone would provide information that we’d normally see on our devices’ screens, but in Braille. ‘Electric Active Plastic’ would be used in the ‘screen’ area to allow for messages and more to pop up in Braille code. I’m not sure what ‘Electric Active Plastic’ is, but hey, I’m digging this design. Besides its obvious uses for those with visual impairments, the phone looks mighty good as well. More images after the break.

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Tip of the cap to Seonkeun. Well done.

[Via: Tuvie]

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  • Missy

    It’s so good to know that even the visually impaired people can also experience the benefits offered by a cell phone today. My brother who has a low vision since he was child loves the big buttons of his phone. He is also being guided by its voice confirm. The phone that he is specifically using the Just5 Easyphone and I’m really grateful to this provider for creating such a very practical phone for someone with an impairment like my brother. This is also very affordable and rates of its calling plans are very reasonable so Just5 is really great!