The Talking Tactile Tablet system
Reading slashdot's main page for today I read the title of an article that said "THE BES PRODUCT DESIGN OF 2006", about an audio system for visualy impared people, instead of using Brail...what I find ironic is that the porpuse is to discribe images to the blind. Now if some one has lost their sight after bein able to see I can see where this is usable, but how in the hell do you discribe how something looks to some one that was born unable to see...thinka bout it, when you discribe you use metaphors and other similes, its almost a moot point hearing a description as it is reading it, if you have no idea what the image in question is being compared to you will end up more confused than aided.
http://slashdot.org/articles/06/06/29/194256.shtml
http://slashdot.org/articles/06/06/29/194256.shtml