{"id":447,"date":"2005-11-27T16:18:09","date_gmt":"2005-11-27T21:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=447"},"modified":"2005-11-29T12:24:56","modified_gmt":"2005-11-29T17:24:56","slug":"reach-out-and-touch-someone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=447","title":{"rendered":"Reach Out and Touch Someone *Updated*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via a post over on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.we-make-money-not-art.com\/\">we make money not art<\/a>&#8221; comes word of an electronic device for the blind. From their source, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.3yen.com\/2005-11-25\/e-paper-braille-from-tokyo-university\/\">News.3Yen<\/a> (which provides translation from the original <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asahi.com\/national\/update\/1125\/TKY200511250213.html\">Asahi.com article<\/a>): <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The prototype, displays 24 letters which can be refreshed with new text in approximately one second making reading easy for visual handicapped persons. A plastic sheet or card displays Braille lettering by creating arrays of bumps on its rubber-like surface.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some years back I was imagining how something similar to this could be used as a virtual world interface. Imagine being able to transmit touch via a pressure sensitive input device and &#8220;display&#8221; it on this material. Now imagine a full-body suit made from it. Hmmm. Maybe you shouldn&#8217;t do that.<\/p>\n<p>{Update: C|Net is now carrying a Reuters article on &#8220;touch&#8221; via cyberspace. Too bad they couldn&#8217;t have posted this a day earlier. Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Remote+hugging+via+cyberpajamas\/2110-11395_3-5973774.html?tag=nefd.hed\">link<\/a>}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via a post over on &#8220;we make money not art&#8221; comes word of an electronic device for the blind. From their source, News.3Yen (which provides translation from the original Asahi.com article): The prototype, displays 24 letters which can be refreshed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=447\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}