Kudos to Braille for coming up with a system for the blind to “read” using their fingers. You know, I’ve always tried to figure out the Braille language and it amazes me as to how the blind’s fingertips are so sensitive that they are able to “read” effortlessly, with their fingers gliding across line after line of Braille writing. Even in blind-friendly elevators, my fingers can’t tell just how many raised dots there are from one button to another. Well, with the iPad and its successor having taken the tablet world by storm with their release, it makes perfect sense if someone else could increase the functionality of the mentioned tablets by making them blind-friendly, since they are touchscreen based? Known as the iSense concept, it intends to transform your iPad touchscreen into a literal, touchable screen.
Of course, this rather nutty idea might take some time to perfect and roll out to the masses considering the kind of engineering required to do so, where it functions as a screen protector that allows you to put over a tablet. Made out of a special material, it will respond to light by forming bumps, which indirectly lets the screen located right underneath to create dynamic physical textures.
This can be used to turn text into Braille, or graphics into other shapes that can be touched and felt – the question is, what kind of software is able to individually ensure a certainly pixel is brighter than the others to make sure that the right Braille letters are formed?
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