Wow, this sounds pretty cool! On a side note, I've often thought braille
user's could have a big advantage with these little devices. After all,
if you only need 8 keys, you can make a pretty small device and still
get a fully functional keyboard! Maybe with something like this, blind
cell phone users will set the record for the fastest text input on a tablet!

I did notice the following in the article, which jumped out at me:

Duran was challenged to use the camera on a mobile device, like the
Motorola Xoom, to create an app that transforms physical pages of
Braille text into readable text on the device.

I'm guessing this was a mistake. I can't imagine how much demand there
is for an OCR application to translate braille hard copy into a text
file. Further proof this was a mistake was revealed when the article
later said:

From the get-go, there  were problems with this plan "How does a blind
person orient a printed page so that the computer knows which side is up?

So it's obvious they were talking about character recognition of a
printed page.


On 14/10/11 07:55, doris marvel fisher wrote:
> Duran was challenged to use the camera on a mobile device, like the
> Motorola
> Xoom, to create an app that transforms physical pages of Braille text into
> readable text on the device. From the get-go, there were problems with this
> plan.
> "How does a blind person orient a printed page so that the computer knows
> which side is up? How does a blind person ensure proper lighting of the
> paper?" Duran said in an interview with Stanford News. "Plus, the


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