Re-designing Mobile Phones for the Blind?

Posted by | Posted in Access to Health, Design, Disability, Food for thought, Mobile Phones | Posted on 02-09-2009

My good friend Joyojeet is running the Technology and Disability in the Developing World Conference next month and this has planted seeds in my mind about that exact topic. I ran into this piece today – “Benevolent Tech: 10 amazing gadgets for the blind” and thought about the conference and whether some of these gadgets can also be re-designed for use in low resource settings. Just some food for thought:

B-Touch-Braille-Mobile-Phone-Concept-6

Reblog this post [with Zemanta]
  • Share/Bookmark

Post a comment