B-Touch Concept, Touchscreen Mobile Phone for the Blind

June 17th, 2009 | by Thrystan |

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 Loading ... Sometimes concept phones look nice, other times they protect the environment, but there also designs meant to make the life of people with impairments easier. This is also the case of the B-Touch phone, created by Zhenwei You and destined to reach the hands of visually impaired persons.

This is a touchscreen device, that uses Braille (blind touch screen) technologies, voice activated systems and software for better interaction with the user. Also, the handset can be used as a navigation device, book reader and object recognizer. As you can see in the image below, the handset can also recognize text and read it out loud to the user.

Voice activated dialing is also on board, but if you want to learn more about the concept phone, you should check out the video at the end of this article.

[via Yanko Design]

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