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The first smartphone for the blind is being developed in India

blind smartphone the emergence of touch screens and eliminating many physical buttons, there has been a significant change in the design of the interface of smartphones, tablets, etc.. In principle we think that has been a positive development, but not for everyone. For example, the blind. Beyond the projects of large companies, a manufacturer Hindu locally is developing the first smartphone designed for the blind. To make it real, we have used a type of display that changes shape to show relief and those who do not see can touch and have a different answer to the one we have, where ever more dependent on the eyes.

This material, named Shape Memory Alloy (term memory effect in Spanish) is a type of smart component that reacts to touch to change its shape. Thus, instead of on and off like a screen, is transformed to be showing the various menus and options. As always emerging technology with potential to be disruptive, we keep some calm to avoid falling into the topic of whether it is revolutionary when far we only know that it is a prototype that is under development and still remains so that they begin to produce.

In the eyes of Google

It is expected that in 2013 Google started mass producing its called Project Glass lenses whose prototype introduced this year and quickly became the technology of its kind product more commented.

The devices offer the user contextual information and also send and receive messages through voice commands. Babak Parviz, Steve Lee and Sebastian Thrun, the innovation lab of the company, said the devices allow voice calls, see the weather, locate a section of books in a library, or buy tickets for a concert focus only in a commercial look. It is expected that in the future all these functions are concentrated on contact lenses. For now, Sergey Brin, cofounder of Google, usually wear glasses in several public presentations.

Meanwhile, Microsoft also is working on its own version of the lens, which, according to the forums and technology blogs will be called Kinect Glasess, and will be used to handle the Xbox 360a. Also, the Japanese company Sony also filed a patent application of certain smart lenses, whose functions would be to measure heart rate, blood pressure and other biometric functions.

The purpose of Google Glass would display information available to users of hands-free smartphone, also allowing access to the Internet using voice commands, so comparable with Siri, iPhone feature. The operating system will be Android. Project Glass is part of the Google X Lab of the company, which has worked in other futuristic technologies, as an autonomous vehicle. The project was announced on Google+ by Babak Parviz, an electrical engineer who worked putting the screens in the lenses, Steve Lee, project manager and "geolocation specialist" and Sebastian Thrun, who developed Udacity and worked in the auto pilot project Car car Google Google Google has patented Glass. It should be noted that other companies are working on these lenses mainly Sony and Nokia but Microsoft and Apple are working on a Smart Watch, a wrist bone augmented reality.

creado por: Esvin Galindo