Samsung Touchable Ink
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Samsung Touchable Ink
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#2This is somewhat similar to swell paper that Ben Krasnow showed in one of his videos recently. The difference is that there the chemical is in the paper, not the ink.
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#3This is great for the blind, but is their a broader use for simulated letter press in letterhead or business cards?
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#4But does it explode?
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#5"Touchable Ink, a project in which laser printers are able to print braille-embossed documents. The Touchable Ink, still in its early days, involves a chemical process to adding embossing powder to the laser printing ink. Users just replace their ink cartridge"
So is it ink or is it toner? That reminds me, early HP laser printers did put enough toner on the page that it could be clearly felt, although not as extreme as this.
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#6This is great for the blind, but is their a broader use for simulated letter press in letterhead or business cards?
That might be its most common use. It can be surprising how few blind people actually read braille, it is particularly uncommon amongst those who have developed visual imparements after their youth.
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#7"Touchable Ink, a project in which laser printers are able to print braille-embossed documents. The Touchable Ink, still in its early days, involves a chemical process to adding embossing powder to the laser printing ink . Users just replace their ink cartridge " So is it ink or is it toner? That reminds me, early HP laser printers did put enough toner on the page that it could be clearly felt, although not as extrem…
Touchable Toner sounds kind of dumb, which is why they called it Touchable Ink, I'm guessing.
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#8This is great for the blind, but is their a broader use for simulated letter press in letterhead or business cards?
That might be its most common use. It can be surprising how few blind people actually read braille, it is particularly uncommon amongst those who have developed visual imparements after their youth.
I wouldn't be surprised if the availability of technologies like these caused more blind people to learn to read braille. It is of extremely limited use at the moment as you require a text to be already available to you or pay high fees for conversion.
Of course it is also important that it is cheap to do. When you have a significant disability such as loss of sight your income suffers.
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#9Smart phone apps for the blind are great and important but from what I've read they don't seem to be having the impact on blind employment that Braille has had.
74% of the blind are unemployed [1] (there is another figure you will occasionally see of 13% unemployment for the blind, that's a US Government statistic that excludes anyone not considered in the list of potentially employed people).
Braille literacy is highly correlated with employment among the blind, and rates of Braille literacy are falling rapidly in the US, from a peak of around 50% in the 1950's to more like 12% today [1].
Hopefully someone here will know of a survey reporting measurable economic gains for the new generation of Braille-illiterate technologically assisted blind, thus far what I've heard anecdotally on that front has not been encouraging.
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#10Smart phone apps for the blind are great and important but from what I've read they don't seem to be having the impact on blind employment that Braille has had. 74% of the blind are unemployed [1] (there is another figure you will occasionally see of 13% unemployment for the blind, that's a US Government statistic that excludes anyone not considered in the list of potentially employed people). Braille literacy is hig…
I've always been curious about the impact of smartphones on blinds. A famous french singer said it was a bliss to be able to ask Siri for informations or having the phone vibrate to location or other kind of data. That said having a finer tactile interface is always a plus to me (and I'm not blind yet)