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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.strikin
by unwind 10y ago
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/ 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 perhaps something can be done through the phone, too.
Can somebody please explain how they count their Braille cells? From reading Wikipedia, a "cell" should be 2x3 dots. The site says the watch has 4 cells, but it clearly has more than 2x3*4 = 24 dots; I count 30. Also the middle cell seems to be split by the vertical line? Very confusing.
- edent 10y agoBetween each cell is a space. From looking at their photos and videos, nothing raises in those locations. Effectively, each line is like: `••◦••|••◦••`
- rkalfane 10y agoIt looks like the 3D renders display a bit too many dots. When you look at the picture of the man holding a prototype, you have 4 cells with no split.
- bigblind 10y agoI deidn't count the dots, but you'd expect 6 dots in each braille cell, 2 vertical rows of 3;
- DanBC 10y agoThe submitted link was to an RNIB podcast that discusses the watch. Audioboom is official home to those podcasts. https://audioboom.com/posts/5655817-the-first-braille-smartwatch 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.
- unwind 10y agoOh, okay. I tend to expect textual information for a title like that; I never listen to podcasts. Thanks for the heads-up.
- dennisjung 10y agoIt's true there are 4 cells x 6 dots = 24 dots. rests are just the carvings and design, same applies to the mid line to provide visually impaired user to sense "left" and "right"