Apparently a braille e-book, similar in size and design to Amazon's Kindle and Kindle 2, is currently in development. The potential this product has is astounding. Visually impaired people will now have access to portable books, a luxury that has long been denied, due the fact that translating a book to braille often doubles its thickness.
According to the article on Gizmodo, the braille e-book "uses an electroactive polymer to raise the braille dots when a charge is passed through certain areas of the screen."
The designers on this project are Seon-Keun Park, Byung-Min Woo, Sun-Hye Woo and Jin-Sun Park.
Considering that this is such an innovative and interesting technology, I was surprised and disappointed that neither article contained very much information. I look forward to more information on this in the future.
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