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The First Elevated-Pin Braille Smartphone Gets A Prototype
• http://www.popsci.com, By Colin LecherThe phone, from the Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship in Ahmedabad, translates text into braille by elevating pins: after the text or email or webpage comes in, the pins form a braille version that the user can touch to read. It's not clear what operating system the phone will run on--Android? Something else?--but according to the Times Of India, it'll feature "all other elements" that your more traditional smartphone would have.