Ed’s Telecom Alert

Folks,

Check this link out:

Braille Story

Quotable quotes:

"We have become slaves to keyboards that are too small and that have too many buttons," Mario Romero, a post-doctoral fellow at Georgia Tech's School for Interactive Computing and the lead researcher on a paper about Braille Touch, said in an interview with The Times. "Almost everyone has to look at the keyboard when they send a text message. We lose sight every time we text. And I don't think that's right."

Braille Touch would change that. It is based on Computer Braille, a system of typing that allows users to input up to 63 characters through pressing different combinations of just six buttons — three on each side of the phone. Users of this new typing system hold the phone facing away from the body, using the middle three fingers of each hand to chord in letters, numbers and characters such as exclamation points and the "at" sign. Spaces and backspaces can be entered through gestures of flicking left or right on the phone.

Read rest of the article; it is intriguing.  

eyes open & thumbs up,

Ed

Long Link: http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-braille-touch-blind-texting-20120220,0,2817977.story