Thing of the day: for reader SMS from your smartphone to the touch
Devices / / December 19, 2019
Scientists Moscow State Psychological and Pedagogical University (MGPPU) together with the specialists of the company "Systematics Group" created a device "Tactile hand." It is intended to help people with disabilities to receive text and voice messages from a smartphone, using only tactile sensations.
This is a rather strange device is in the form of a cuff worn on the forearm above the wrist. When connected to a mobile application on your smartphone "Tactile arm" converts text messages into the perceived mechanical effects.
For these exposures meet six Electric Motors, which, in effect, convey the tactile code of ON for a short time in a certain sequence. Encoding the signal is based on the six-point presentation of the Braille characters.
To master such a code would help provided in the application of training mode, where the game will need to recognize the shape of random characters on the vibrations.
So far released a limited batch of devices intended for testing in conjunction with a number of charities. After the test is planned to finalize the mobile application and add a function to input information so that users can not only read the messages, but also to respond to them.
More details about the project - official website.