Reprogrammable braille could be the future of e-readers for the blind

Reprogrammable braille could be the future of e-readers for the blind

6 years ago
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https://thenextweb.com/science/2018/07/25/reprogrammable-braille-harvard-books/

Braille books are big. Dauntingly so. For example, when Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was translated into the system, it was over 1,000 pages across 14 volumes of thick paper. Well, researchers at Harvard have taken a big step into making this a thing of the past with reprogrammable braille.

The idea was to create an information storage system that could be manipulated at will. And, weirdly, the scientists from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (or, for less of a mouthful, SEAS) were influenced by a fruit bowl when designing it.