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BITs
Day for day, blind people encounter great difficulties in a society in which most facilities and products are not designed for their easy access or use.
‘BITs’ offers an ‘assistant’ for blind people which enables them to move freely and independently in the city, thus affording them greater social integration. This assistant can help them to easily carry out daily activities that are otherwise complicated for them due to their physical condition.
‘BITs’ works through an interface designed specially for blind people. This interface consists of four parts: front, inside, back and laterals. The front features the numerical buttons and trackball that control the main menu (messages, calls control, tools, radio, GPS, Internet connection, organizer and scanner). The back has a Braille keyboard for writing texts. A text reader/scanner, the power switch, volume control and ports for plugging in the earpieces and battery charger are all located on the laterals. The inside features a text screen composed of movable micropistons that rise to form the letters of the Braille alphabet.
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Finding of the jury:
This design integrates many technologies to achieve an easy and effective communication interface for blind people.
‘BITs’ brings together the functions of a text-to-voice converter, a radar, GPS and a cell phone in a single device, even though not all of these are conventionally designed for portability. By uniting these functions, it offers blind individuals the tools to move independently from one place to another, to find their way easily, to stay in contact with others, and to be aware of the information that surrounds them.
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