The 53’rd Annual Design issue of ID magazine features a concept cell phone for the blind by Hong Kong designer Peter Lau that avoids using the Braille system (A system of raised dots representing letters that enables blind people to read by touching and to write using an embosser). Instead, the phone features a 3-D keypad with large keys and a concave surface that provides an alternative means to read the surface via touch. The device also features a menu wheel but given the sketchy details provided it’s hard to tell how one would navigate through the menu wheel.
Update: While surfing around, I came across another cell phone prototype for the blind that is more than an year old but uses the Braille system. This one is from Samsung. (link)
[...] There are no details on this, but presumably it would be possible to have speech synthesis read out text messages. And I guess that the phone could also read your messages out loud as you compose them. There are no details however, like with most concepts, but it looks cool and it’s probably invisible to radars with all those angled surfaces. [Sensory Impact] [...]
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[...] There are no details on this, but presumably it would be possible to have speech synthesis read out text messages. And I guess that the phone could also read your messages out loud as you compose them. There are no details however, like with most concepts, but it looks cool and it’s probably invisible to radars with all those angled surfaces. [Sensory Impact] [...]
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[...] There are no details on this, but presumably it would be possible to have speech synthesis read out text messages. And I guess that the phone could also read your messages out loud as you compose them. There are no details however, like with most concepts, but it looks cool and it’s probably invisible to radars with all those angled surfaces. [Sensory Impact] [...]
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[...] Este concepto de Peter Lau permite a una persona ciega usar un móvil gracias al ángulo del teclado. No hay muchos detalles, pero puede incluir un sintetizador de voz para ayudar en sus funciones. Gizmodo [...]
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[...] There are no details on this, but presumably it would be possible to have speech synthesis read out text messages. And I guess that the phone could also read your messages out loud as you compose them. There are no details however, like with most concepts, but it looks cool and it’s probably invisible to radar with all those angled surfaces. [Sensory Impact] [...]
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[...] There are no details on this, but presumably it would be possible to have speech synthesis read out text messages. And I guess that the phone could also read your messages out loud as you compose them. There are no details however, like with most concepts, but it looks cool and it’s probably invisible to radar with all those angled surfaces. [Sensory Impact] [...]
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[...] There are no details on this, but presumably it would be possible to have speech synthesis read out text messages. And I guess that the phone could also read your messages out loud as you compose them. There are no details however, like with most concepts, but it looks cool and it’s probably invisible to radar with all those angled surfaces. [Sensory Impact] [...]
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[...] There are no details on this, but presumably it would be possible to have speech synthesis read out text messages. And I guess that the phone could also read your messages out loud as you compose them. There are no details however, like with most concepts, but it looks cool and it’s probably invisible to radar with all those angled surfaces. [Sensory Impact] [...]
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