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[News] [oneclub] 2023 ADC AWARDS - PRODUCT DESIGN DOT PAD. THE FIRST SMART TACTILE GRAPHICS DISPLAY
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2023.06.07 11:00

While most people rely on visuals to understand complex topics, the 285 million blind and visually impaired people worldwide are left out. Tactile books are scarce, expensive, and impractical. Audio descriptions fail to describe complex information. Dot Pad. The first smart tactile graphics display for the visually impaired. It can display any visual content from any source. At the core of the Dot Pad is the third generation of the innovative Dot actuator technology. While conventional tactile devices use piezoelectricity to power their braille cells, Dot actuators use electromagnetism, which reduces size, weight, power consumption, and price by more than ten times. This dramatically increases usability and portability while making Dot Pad affordable for majority of the users. It requires intelligence to understand what’s in an image and decide what’s important to the audience. To create comprehensible tactile content, Dot Pad relies on the innovative Dot Image Processor based on AI. Trained with millions of existing visual and tactile graphics, it can analyze, understand, and segment visual content, and translate it to tactile graphics on the display of 2,400 dots. There is also a built-in text panel for braille translation. Thanks to a partnership with Apple, Dot Pad integrates seamlessly with iOS and iPadOS, thereby giving users access to the 2.2 million apps on the App Store, out of the box. Dot Pad reduces dependence on tactile textbooks and audio description for graphical content which sighted people are used to freely enjoying. Launched in early 2022, Dot Pad has earned huge interest from the media as well as public and private institutions worldwide. Dot Pad technology is permanently installed in public kiosks in Busan, South Korea. Dot Pad has disrupted the field of accessibility technology with tactile graphics.