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I think this is the first real tactile display product I've seen go to market. Have there been any other big ones?
That 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…
Audioboom is official home to those podcasts.
https://audioboom.com/posts/5655817-the-first-braille-smartw...
The five minute audio podcast has interviews with the company and with users and explains a bit about why this is different to existing braille displays.
I 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.
I read that as, "The First Braille Sandwich"
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I sometimes wonder what technology would look like if it were developed by an alien culture with no sense of vision.
I somehow believe that the evolutionary pressure towards sight is so large (i.e. the benefit of sight is so great) that we're essentially guaranteed any sentient biological extraterrestrial will have it.
even sight-dominant animals may have radically different vision to ours. Cats for example are more sensitive to motion than to static resolution
How we obtain our data about the world is a huge influence over how we conceive of it. I wonder how different programming would be were we to do it entirely by touch
Does a non-switching pixel require a current?
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I somehow believe that the evolutionary pressure towards sight is so large (i.e. the benefit of sight is so great) that we're essentially guaranteed any sentient biological extraterrestrial will have it.
true, but consider other sighted animals but which have a different dominant sense: dogs (smell), moles (touch), platypus (electric-fields) even sight-dominant animals may have radically different vision to ours. Cats for example are more sensitive to motion than to static resolution How we obtain our data about the world is a huge influence over how we conceive of it. I wonder how different programming would be were…
[0]: not these ones tho https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Gippsland_earthworm