“Total Access” Product Promotion: Irked spotlights The DeafBlind Communicator
Written by admin2 on September 6th, 2009Filed under: Themes, Blind Visionaries, Deaf Jam, Irked Videos
Last week, we told you about HumanWare’s very groovy Trekker Breeze handheld talking GPS for people who are blind and visually impaired. But the company makes MANY cutting-edge, disability-friendly products! Check out these two BBC videos about another one of HumanWare’s groundbreaking devices—The DeafBlind Communicator (DBC), conceived by Washington state’s Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, built by the Canadian company HumanWare and perfected with feedback from members of Seattle’s deaf-blind community, consists of a Braille note-taker linked by Bluetooth to a mobile phone:
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Quoting Robert J. Steppler, speaking with newschief.com:
Technology for the deaf-blind has always been behind. We had literally been left out in the dark, and it was bleak. [The DeafBlind Communicator's] brought me out into the world and given me freedom.
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Quoting the Beeb:
Graham Hicks, who is deaf and blind, tests a system that enables a Braille computer to send messages to a mobile phone display. A person with full vision can use the phone to type a message that the Braille computer then relays to the deaf-blind person. Humanware, the company that makes the DeafBlind Communicator, employed Mr Hicks to write an evaluation report of the system.
Quoting the Beeb:
The DeafBlind Communicator enables a Braille computer to send messages to a mobile phone display. A person with full vision can use the phone to type a message that the Braille computer then relays to the deaf-blind person. Alan Davis from HumanWare, which makes the DeafBlind Communicator, says the device opens new doors.
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Get your DBC here!
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