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Technology has definitely been a blessing to humans and smartphones have become the need of the day. With having everything from the daily wake-up call (read alarm) to good-night reads (ebooks) on your phone, it has become an essential, almost a basic need.
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A Smartphone That Converts Text to Braille Developed for the Blind -Rutu Ladage

-India Times An Indian has developed a unique smart-phone that can aid the blind and help them perform functions other than answering calls. Technology has definitely been a blessing to humans and smartphones have become the need of the day. With having everything from the daily wake-up call (read alarm) to good-night reads (ebooks) on your phone, it has become an essential, almost a basic need. However, there is a segment of population who do not benefit from such modern gadgets. While a smartphone is a necessity for most of us, it is useless for a blind person. To help even the blind benefit from the smartphone, an Indian has released a new Braille version of the phone. Developed by Sumit Dagar, who is still working on setting up his formal organisation at the Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship, located in IIM-A, the phone is the world's forst Braille smartphone. But how does the phone work? The messages and texts are sent as regular messages. However, instead of a smooth glass panel, the phone comes with depressions. The innovative ‘touch-screen' elevates and depresses contents into touchable patterns which can then be deciphered by the blind. The basic concept behind the phone is the use of the simple ‘Shape Memory Alloy' technology. According to the technology, metals remember their original form and expand/contract to the original form post use. The phone comes with a host of pins under the screen which elevate or depress to form letters and words in Braille. The pins can be felt on the screen. When a user sends a message, the phone deciphers it and converts it into Braille. The pins then move accordingly to form the message in Braille. All other elements of the phone are like any regular phone. Whether the text of even apps has been translated and how well the phone works without connectivity is still unclear. Sumit Dagar is a post-graduate from the National institute of Design and is collaborating with IIT Delhi to get the phone ready. The initial prototype is under test at L V Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad. According to Sumit Dagar: The response during the test has been immense. It comes out as a companion more than a phone to the user. We plan to do more advanced versions of the phone in the future." It is definitely a great achievement and we wish the young innovator the very best!   India Times, 21 April, 2013, http://www.indiatimes.com/technology/mobile/a-smartphone-t hat-converts-text-to-braille-developed-for-the-blind-72969 .html