New Braille display mechanism offers 'full screen' internet to the blind

Internet and computer applications have always been beyond the visually impaired. There are refreshable Braille displays for help, but these are slow yet expensive and offer very limited accessibility, like one line at a time. Now, to open new doors of internet to the blind, researchers at the North Carolina State University have readied a prototype hydraulic and latching mechanism to revolutionize the way the impaired use the internet and computers. The mechanism made in electroactive polymer would provide the Braille dots raised to a particular height which would every swiftly detect the weight being applied by a person's fingers and thus respond instantly – allowing the users to surf the web more ably and quickly. Besides this the use of electroactive polymer also makes the mechanism way cheaper to the Braille displays used these days.

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