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These are our final four boards for The Brailway SmartCard 

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A braille credit card design designed by Young Suk Kim for Yanko.

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Early work on the prototype smart travel  eyehop card.

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We too these photographs during our field investigation day, We tried to contact the architects of the ramp.

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Marc Dillon, a Helsinki-based designer, is the mastermind behind The Unseen Project, a new initiative that is giving the blind and the visually impaired the possibility of experiencing some of the most amazing pieces of classical art. Famous paintings such as the Mona Lisa have now been recreated in 3D models that can be felt and touched. 3D Printers are giving these people the possibility to experience art for the first time in their lives!

The people behind The Unseen Project use 3D imaging and sand based 3D printing in order to recreate these works of art on a scale that could be displayed in art museums around the globe.

The Unseen Project is currently holding an IndieGoGo fundraiser campaign; so if you have some extra cash to support this amazing project please visit their page – The Unseen Project.

The post 3-D Printed Paintings Will Allow the Blind to Experience Famous Art appeared first on theAlphaBrain.

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The Kenguru measures 7 feet long and 5 feet high, making it smaller than a Smart Car. It has no seats -- drivers simply roll a wheelchair in from a pop-up back door. Designed for use on local roads, the vehicle goes up to 25 miles per hour, with an estimated range of 60 miles.

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Electronic Braille Travel card. Links with Irish rail real time information to deliver train information to the card in braille. 

User can interact with the middle button to indicate their journey.

Vibrations and braille indicate when to to get on and off the train.

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Hand held interactive map/navigation device, using GPS technology guides the user with a 3D point. Uses different materials to differentiate the streets from the buildings. 

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REDUCED EFFECTIVENESS OF IRISH ROAD SIGNS DESIGN

There are many issues with the design of our current road signs, and Ireland has earned a negative reputation for signposting and the quality of our roads (Bord Fáilte, 2000). In terms of the typographic design of our signs, however, there is little research available, but much is available internationally which defines the Irish ‘design’ as inefficient and inappropriate. 

Using uppercase for English place names Upper and lower case place names achieve better clarity in the same space as upper case, in part because the ‘shape’ of letters and words is more pronounced. Moreover, the Transport typeface was specifically designed to be used in upper and lowercase and not to do so thwarts its intent. 

When reading, the eye must rapidly establish individual letters and the overall word, this is more difficult in all uppercase configurations. Letter spacing should be increased when using uppercase text, this allows the eye to recognise individual letter shapes, where word shape is not a guide. 

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The device will scan the text and generate the corresponding Braille code enabling the visually impaired person to sense it on a fingertip by the means of a piezoelectrically actuated tip. The sensors, processing units, power supply and output units are completely integrated into a wearable device. Along with this, the device also facilitates the user to learn Braille by manoeuvring it in training mode.

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Voice Stick

Voice Stick is a text scanning device for the visually impaired.When the stick has scanned in the printed letters, the OCR function recognizes the text and converts the information into voice. The voice is then read back and thus helping the visually challenged.

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Most of us take telling the time and reading books for granted.

But these simple actions can be a real struggle or completely impossible for visually impaired people, despite the advent of new technologies such as smartwatches and e-readers.

Dot, it has shifting cells of raised bumps which visually impaired people can read or feel as words.

The gadget could enable them to read text messages as well as whole e-books from their wrists using haptic technology, which provides information in real-time through touch.

It has a built-in vibration motor to alert wearers to incoming messages, which are sent to the watch from a smartphone.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3184208/Braille-smartwatch-lets-blind-people-read-text-messages-e-books-using-active-dots.html#ixzz3t5Xdmpuv

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Braille Smart Gear is the latest in the trend of wearable smart devices, but focuses on usability for those with sight impairments. Using a transforming Braille surface, wearers can access duplicate information from their tethered phone (such as messages, alarms, contacts, etc.) with merely a touch. In addition, wearers can make, accept and decline calls without reaching for their phone.

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Proof there is a real problem in relation to wheelchair entry onto trains and that gap you have to mind is a hazard. #InclusiveCities