The Bamboo Blinds are a nice addition to any home and window in your home. The blinds are very beautiful and elegant as well. They will add an Asian touch to your home and make it look lovely.
The blinds will help you protect your eyes from the bright natural sunlight. You will love the blinds and enjoy the great natural, light color.
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Filed under: Digital Cameras
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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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
We’ve seen plenty of gadgets designed to aid the visually impaired, but none quite like this so-called “Tactile Wand” concept from designer Jin Woo Han, who’s no stranger to nifty concept devices. Obviously taking a few cues from another familiar “wand,” this would-be device employs a sensor on the front to determine the distance to the object it’s pointed at, which gets relayed to the user in the form of varying levels of vibration. Needless to say, there’s no indication of it actually moving beyond the concept stage, but it certainly doesn’t seem beyond the realm of possibility.
[Via OhGizmo]
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There’s hardly a shortage of pocketable devices for the blind, but the Zen is lookin’ out for the visually impaired who crave a more full-fledged computing experience. Essentially, the Sandbox PC (hardware) and Zen (operating system) would team up to “create a computing environment that could be used with eyes closed.” More specifically, it would utilize an Active Surface for displaying text in Braille and producing images, windows and icons that could be felt. No word on whether this contraption would handle other tasks such as reading one’s e-mail aloud or enabling the blind to still participate in Hot or Not, but nevertheless, it’s definitely a step in the right direction.
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A trade show held in Japan recently called AMEDIA showed off 18 new products aimed at helping the visually impaired better utilize technology. Among the devices on offer were an adaptive Braille display, which can convert text from a PC screen into the hand-read alphabet in real time, the REHA Vision “Color Talk,” a handheld scanner which can recognize 220 colors and speak them to the user, and what appears to be GW Micro’s VoiceSense PDA (here being employed to help those with visual impairments in the IT sector). The collection of gadgets clearly illustrates the kind of time and energy being put into making modern technology more accessible to everyone. Hit the read link for a (translated) tour of the show.
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Filed under: Displays
A project that saw a prototype form some five years back is finally nearing commercialization, as ELIA Life Technology has recently been licensed to bring a tactile graphic display device and fingertip graphic reader to market. Originally developed by NIST researchers, the aforementioned screen enables individuals to feel an array of images on a reusable surface by raising around 3,600 actuator points into a certain pattern, each of which can be sent electronically to the reader. Separately, a finger-based device utilizes 100 minuscule pins that can be activated as a person scans a given surface, which enables the pins to move across one’s skin as it “translates” the text / image / etc. Regrettably, a concrete release date wasn’t mentioned, but judging by the looks of it, it shouldn’t be long now before it’s widely available to those interested.
[Via Coolest-Gadgets]
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