Engadget - Touch Sight camera for the blind displays photos using Braille

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Gadgets for the visually impaired are nothing new, but the Touch Sight camera is one of the most unique we've seen. Designed to be held against the forehead, the camera doesn't have an LCD, but instead displays a three-dimensional representation of the image on a built-in Braille screen and records three seconds of audio to assist users in locating and managing shots. Just a concept for now, but let's hope it makes it to market -- it seems like it'd be a fun toy for the sighted as well.

 

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Now THAT'S cool. I wonder how useful it is for the sight impaired? I mean...are they transforming the experience of "seeing" pics into something else?

 

I've always been fascinated by what a blind person would perceive as being "beautiful"

 

 

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