Dot Watch – A braille and tactile smartwatch
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Dot Watch – A braille and tactile smartwatch
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Re: Dot Watch – A braille and tactile smartwatch
#2I remember when this was first announced a few years ago - great to see its progress. It's amazing that visual display tech has advanced so far in 100 years that one can't see the pixels, yet haptic display tech is so primitive that the best displays are only capable of dozens of pixels. It goes to show that motivation and money are what drive tech innovation, not fundamental physical constraints.
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#3That looked a bit like blogspam, or whatever the word it. It wasn't very information-dense, anyway.
The manufacturer seems to be here: http://fingerson.strikingly.com/. I guess it's a smart watch since it pairs over BT with a cell phone, and can show notifications from the phone. It can show the current time without a phone connection, yay. No custom installable apps on the watch itself as far as I could see, but perhaps something can be done through the phone, too.
Can somebody please explain how they count their Braille cells? From reading Wikipedia, a "cell" should be 2x3 dots. The site says the watch has 4 cells, but it clearly has more than 2x3*4 = 24 dots; I count 30. Also the middle cell seems to be split by the vertical line? Very confusing.
Re: Dot Watch – A braille and tactile smartwatch
#4That looked a bit like blogspam, or whatever the word it. It wasn't very information-dense, anyway. The manufacturer seems to be here: http://fingerson.strikingly.com/ . I guess it's a smart watch since it pairs over BT with a cell phone, and can show notifications from the phone. It can show the current time without a phone connection, yay. No custom installable apps on the watch itself as far as I could see, but pe…
Between each cell is a space. From looking at their photos and videos, nothing raises in those locations.
Effectively, each line is like:
`••◦••|••◦••`
Re: Dot Watch – A braille and tactile smartwatch
#5That looked a bit like blogspam, or whatever the word it. It wasn't very information-dense, anyway. The manufacturer seems to be here: http://fingerson.strikingly.com/ . I guess it's a smart watch since it pairs over BT with a cell phone, and can show notifications from the phone. It can show the current time without a phone connection, yay. No custom installable apps on the watch itself as far as I could see, but pe…
It looks like the 3D renders display a bit too many dots.
When you look at the picture of the man holding a prototype, you have 4 cells with no split.
Re: Dot Watch – A braille and tactile smartwatch
#6I remember when this was first announced a few years ago - great to see its progress. It's amazing that visual display tech has advanced so far in 100 years that one can't see the pixels, yet haptic display tech is so primitive that the best displays are only capable of dozens of pixels. It goes to show that motivation and money are what drive tech innovation, not fundamental physical constraints.
I sometimes wonder what technology would look like if it were developed by an alien culture with no sense of vision.
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#7I read that as, "The First Braille Sandwich"
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#8I think this is the first real tactile display product I've seen go to market. Have there been any other big ones?
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#9Can't you spell words letter by letter if it's fast enough?
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