Smartphone for the Blind

Until now, people deprived of view, could use the phone for calls. To navigate the menu system and launch a cell of certain applications they needed to use a special, rather expensive equipment. To make life easier for the blind, Israeli experts have developed a new smartphone called Project Ray.

Typically, to start the application on your phone with a touch screen user clicks on the icon with your finger. A blind man can not do this because they do not see the icon. Smartphone Project Ray solves this problem. It has an interface that scrolls through the icons by pressing. The device is voiced by the name of each icon and to launch the application, you simply remove your finger from the screen at the time when the desired item is selected menyu.

A similar principle is implemented and to search for a person in the contact list. When the user will hear the name of the person you want to call, you need to release your finger from the screen - set to begin immediately nomera.

The device has a GPS chip. It is useful in those cases where it is important to know the address of the building or other object that faces the user. In the future it is planned to equip the smartphone NFC chip. This will allow the machine to read the names of certain products, which is located next to the man, and articulate them. The smartphone, which was created in cooperation with the company Qualcomm, should appear on sale in Israel in early 2013.

Source: zhelezyaka.com/novosti/raznoe/smartfon-dlya-slepyh-7416/