Ahmedabad, April 21: An incubator company at the IIM-A has developed the world's first smartphone for blind people. The phone, designed to let blind people to read SMSes and send emails, converts all text into Braille patterns.
Innovator Sumit Dagar, whose company is being incubated at the Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) based on the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A ) campus, has developed the unique device.
Dagar, a postgraduate from the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, is now collaborating with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi.
According to Dagar, the touch screen of the phone is capable of elevating and depressing the contents it receives in order to convert them into 'touchable' patterns.
At the moment, the venture is being funded by Rolex Awards under its Young Laureates Programme, where they select only five people from across the world every two years to fund their projects.
