Silicon Touch: an iPhone case for the visually impaired

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RCC2k8 @ Dec 1st 2008 11:32PM

This thing should never go into production.

1. First, it's HIDEOUS. And don't try that crap of "it's for blind people; they don't care about appearance." Whoever thinks that probably also thinks blind people don't have to dress well or look good. Blind people who interact with sighted people on an everyday basis do care about appearance, even if it isn't their #1 priority.

2. Even if this contraption were to work functionally speaking, it is still useless until Apple decides to release VoiceOver for the iPhone. Another company might try to make a screen reader for the iPhone to provide speech and braille support for it, but if the MacOS story is to be repeated in the mobile world, it isn't profitable to develop a screen reader for the Mac when Apple is then going to release their own.

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