A Device to Help Blind People Draw

By John Farrier in Art, Gadgets, Hacks & Mods on Aug 12, 2009 at 8:00 pm

Still in the concept stage, the Touch Color is a device that would allow visually impaired people to create two-dimensional art:

This innovative device comprises a Rainbow Picker in a form of a scroll wheel, which contains Braille dots that allows blind people to select a color from 24 available. After selecting a color, this device differentiates the colors by generating varied temperatures through LED bulbs. Then the user can paint on a thermal art board by using their fingers and the thermal-color display technology keeps the track of the lines and colors the blind artist is using.

There are more pictures and diagrams of this gadget at the link.

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  1. Jeff Butler
    Aug 12th, 2009 at 9:18 pm

    Maybe I’m dense, but how would the blind person then appreciate their art? Or, unless blinded after birth, know what colors are? I can’t see how this would be more effective than giving them a braile key for a set of paints, or colored pencils. Maybe I’m just dense though.

  2. Johnny Cat
    Aug 12th, 2009 at 9:24 pm

    This seems like snake oil for the sharper image blind crowd. The descriptions in the promo material is laughably ironic, “Red he paints, a heartful color never seen before.” I was wondering how the person knows what and how they are painting, but then I saw the panel that said, “Outline the picture with a Braille stylus” & I wonder what that is?
    Oh, and…

    Mask, anyone?

  3. VonSkippy
    Aug 13th, 2009 at 2:10 am

    How utterly useless. What’s next, karaoke machines for deaf people?

  4. Larfin Jackarse
    Aug 13th, 2009 at 3:17 am

    Yeah. As IF deaf people could write music!

  5. ted
    Aug 13th, 2009 at 7:09 am

    Getting pretty tired of seeing these bogus concepts.

    I wish people on karaoke would write music instead of singing it.

    Apparently, the thermal display tells the blind person what they’ve done. If I were a blind artist, though, I’d probably go for sculpture – you’d have to have some open-minded models, though.

  6. anonymoussss
    Aug 13th, 2009 at 11:34 am

    paint… what? :S

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