TACTILE Mobile Phone Lets Blind Access Multi-Media Features With Digital Texture

TACTILE Mobile Phone Lets Blind Access Multi-Media Features With Digital Texture

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Tactile Phone, Nikko van Stolk, future mobile phone
You may enjoy features like e-mail, multimedia messaging, voice dialing, phone books, word processors, multi-color displays, and cameras on your hi-tech cellphone, but the special users, especially visually impaired, have to do with conventional landline phones to fulfill their communication needs. Providing a solution, designer Nikko van Stolk has come up with an innovative cellphone named the “Tactile” that makes use of a system of digital texture to let the blind access a multitude of features offered by modern multi-touch mobile handsets. Including an array of conductive pins beneath the multi-touch screen, the concept phone employs “the sense of touch by sending digital information as pulses (beats) of electricity to the user’s fingertips to simulate texture.” With Tactile Phone, now users can recognize basic shapes using only their sense of touch across an array of conductive pins.

Tactile Phone, Nikko van Stolk, future mobile phone