Touchscreen Braille Writer Lets the Blind Type on a Tablet

One group of people has traditionally been left out of our modern tablet revolution: the visually impaired. But a Stanford team of three has helped change that. Tasked to create a character-recognition program that would turn pages of Braille into readable text on an Android tablet, the team ended up creating something even more useful: a touchscreen-based Braille writer.

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/10/touchscreen-braille-writer/

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