Bob Cox sent over This One on a new device installed earlier this month at the Osaka Prefectural Central Library allows blind PC users to read graphic information via a tactile display that can approximate an image on a Windows screen using 3,072 pop-up plastic pins, each 1.6 mm in diameter. At a cost of 5 million yen (That\’s about $40,000 USD) I\’m not sure we\’ll be seeing them very often.
\”\”By using the (tactile) display, the blind can understand the visual information contained in books and Web sites, which was impossible before,\” said librarian Masayuki Sugita, who is blind.\”
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