Abstract :
Around the world, 285 million people are blind or visually impaired; over a fifth of them, or nearly 63 million, live in India. Entrepreneur Sumit Dagar wants to be their Alexander Graham Bell: Sometime in the next 12 months he\´ll be rolling out the world\´s first braille cellphone. His company, Kriyate, has drawn up the first prototype, pictured here. Dagar says that test users found it difficult to imagine dynamic braille on such a small device. "But once they comprehend it, the joy is so immense. That\´s what makes us most happy." On the drawing board are plans for an even more advanced phone with a camera that can translate text to braille and images to raised relief figures on the device\´s "display."
