– medgadget.com –
Qualcomm has partnered with Project RAY, a group devoted to improving the lives of blind and visually challenged people through technology, to create a smartphone specifically for those that can’t see. There’s a variety of apps developed for smartphones that take advantage of technology originally developed for sighted folks to help those that are blind.
The RAY phone is the first smartphone that was specifically developed to be used by the blind, featuring a unique, custom designed user interface that utilizes vibrations and audio cues as part of its repertoire. The phone is currently being trialed by 100 people in Israel where the handsets were interfaced with the country’s Central Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Handicapped to provide easy access to books on tape and other reading materials in audio format…