Final Project: The Braille Pad

This is the first quality render of my final project "Braille Pad." We were asked to design for the other 90% of the worlds population, because most products end up being created for the top 10% of the population. Think of stores like BrookStone or Sharper Image and their products. No one really needs a BBQ Poker that tells the temperature, how done your steak is, the time, the weather and the migration patterns of giant sperm wales.

So I came up with a product that would allow those who are visually impaired to read the internet. The "Braille Pad" would be able to look at the un-styled/print version of websites and recreate all the text into braille. There are 2 major drawbacks of this product.

1: The page that is being converted in to braille needs to be using CSS and have a basic html outline format when un-styled. Or have a printer friendly version of the website that the braille pad could translate from.

2: You need to be able to read braille to use the "Braille Pad." I am currently unaware how widespread the use of braille is.

The product would definitely help those who are braille capable.

Other uses of this product would be for the quick and easy conversion of books and literature to braille. Many books/periodicals could be converted to digital text based documents for the enjoyment of those who would use the braille pad.

To bad this is just a digital rendering..