A Braille box on smartphone and tablet

Thanks to the Braille box, the blind will now be able to read the graphics on their smartphone or tablet. We already used our voices to control our phones, make calls, etc. But that is not all.

The Blind previously had no opportunity to read tables or any other graph. It’s now done thanks to the University of Michigan thanks to the Braille box for the blind. smart health connected to your smartphone or tablet, It consists of micro bubbles filled with air or liquid, will give the form as well as the information on the graph. A considerable advance especially since the price of the case will not be exorbitant. It will indeed be capped at 1,000 dollars. It is not that expensive to pay for the blind to use it for reading, communication and basic graphics. Even if the box for the blind does not yet replace all the functionality of the smartphone, it will allow the blind to see what the sighted already take for granted. After 3D mapping for Ford autonomous cars, theUniversity of Michigan pushing the limits once again to develop objects that may revolutionize the smart health connected world of tomorrow.

smart health connected objects for the blind

There are already objects that allow sighted to be smart health connected and not to be overwhelmed by new technologies. A major challenge since there were in 2015, according to INSEE, just over 3 million visually impaired in France. The Fluid Interface Group of MIT Media Lab has already developed the Fingerreader ring with a camera which is placed on the index finger which scans a text to repeat it out loud whether traditional paper books or ebooks. A Korean start-up also created the first in 2015 smartwatch at destination of the blind: Dowry. Dot allows you to read an e-book and can be used to learn Braille. smart health connected to a smartphone via Bluetooth 4.0, the elegantly designed watch can also read the time, receive messages and navigate.

To fight against visual impairment, the French company Pixium Vision has developed a artificial retina allowing the visual data to be transmitted via glasses equipped with a camera to a box which redirects it by infrared to a microprocessor implanted on the eye.

Progress never stops.

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