Como a Internet das Coisas pode ajudar pessoas com deficiência?

Durante anos, o ritmo do avanço rápido da tecnologia muitas vezes deixou para trás pessoas com deficiência. Felizmente, isso parece estar mudando com o surgimento de novas tecnologias. Igualmente, existem novos desenvolvimentos que melhorarão milhões de vidas. Além disso, o advento da Internet das Coisas (IoT, sigla em inglês) está na vanguarda desses avanços que prometem melhorar a…

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Visual Diary 4: A “Tactile” Find

Wearable technology continues to hit the market from Fitbits to Apple watches. Timepieces can be dated back to the 13th century with the first mechanical clock to present-day smart watches where people can tell time, read text messages, and determine who is calling before answering a call. In recent years, the smart watch technology moved a step towards design intervention with the Dot Watch “reinventing tactile communication” for people who are blind and visually impaired. 

Breakthrough Smart Watch Converts Text and Email into Braille

The Dot Watch, which turns text messages into braille for the blind, is being celebrated as the first major innovation for visually impaired readers in nearly 15 years.

After seeing a blind classmate lugging around a heavy braille bible, which contained only five percent of the contents of the holy book, Eric Ju Yoon Kim was surprised that nothing like a Braille iPad existed.

So the University of Washington student set out to invent one.

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