The device uses liquid to generate lines of braille text or relief images. The device competes with expensive, decades-old technologies that allow only one line of braille to be generated at a time.
"We think blind people should be included in the digital era in which we live, with all of the smartphones and tablets, but also ensure that they have a proper way to do everything that sighted people do, like Web browsing, reading books and downloading books,” said Slavi Slavev, chief technology officer and co-founder of Blitab Technology, the International Business Times reported. “Only 1 percent of all books worldwide are available in printed braille, as it's very expensive to produce printed braille. Some people are even saying that braille is decreasing among blind people but we want to get to the point where we can actually change this."
