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Kickstarter Project for Haptica Braille Watch

By Core Jr - February 4, 2011

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Speaking of Kickstarter, David Chavez, the man behind the Haptica Braille Watch has launched his own campaign to fund the engineering, R&D, manufacturing and packaging to get this project on track to becoming a reality! We first mentioned this project two years ago when Chavez won the Spark Design award and interacted with some prototypes at last year's New York Design Week. Support Chavez and the Haptica Braille Watch by donating through Kickstarter here!

Haptica presents a logical alternative for the blind and replaces the archaic products currently available. It provides precision and discretion to the user and seeks to improve the quality of life for a consumer market that is oftentimes over looked. Like most products for people with disabilities, it's somewhat of a niche market. Many products in this category are clumsy and unappealing. Raising funds or finding a big company to back these kinds of products is difficult. By harnessing the power of crowd sourcing, a great concept can become a great product and we won't have to compromise the creative process. We'll be able to create a product that will be both functional and beautiful.

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David

11 years ago

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Even for people who don't normally "read" braille, a concept such as this would seem to offer enough benefits to blind/visually impaired people that they would be motivated to at least learn to read braille numbers.
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Vlad A

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9% of the blind in Japan and around 5% worldwide can read Braille. Good project anyway
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Ryan

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I've seen estimates that fewer than ten percent of the blind in this country read Braille. Seems like a serious lack of research to me.
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