Stroke Dialer For Eyes-Free Keypad Input

[starrychloe]

3m41s too long.

[needmoarinternets]

1. your voice and accent are extremely annoying

2. cut to the goddamn chase, you manage to talk bullshit for 2 minutes until you actually get to what the vid is about

3. its a fucking keypad that pops up where you hit the touchscreen. whats so fucking amazing about it? thanks for wasting 4 minutes of my lifetime for what couldve been told in 20 seconds, retard

[madshobye]

I just tested i am able to blindly unlock my phone and dial a number without looking at my phone. is this a solution looking for a problem?

[chadcdavis]

It just might be helpful to the blind. ;)

[madshobye]

Thanks for pointing that out :-P

My point was merely: Do blind people have a problem navigating a keypad? Since i do not have problem doing this without looking. But then again i have a phone with tangible buttons.

[nosferatu2412]

Fail.

The iPhone app 'A Special Phone' obviously owns this by a mile!

[jordinyc]

"A Special Phone" is the lamest thing I've ever seen. It's just an auto-dialer that you have to have an able bodied person program for you. What if they shake it 1 too many times? or too few? "Hello, 911 emergency? oh god, not you again!" And you damn well better have good grip when you "dial" so it doesn't go airborne.

This app is 100 better because you can call whoever you want and not just a short list, and you don't have to have stupid AT&T to use it.

[nyquilpinches]

now i said this before... wouldnt it be a hell of a lot easyer if say you wanted a 2.. you just drew out a 2 with your finger?? thats way easyer and they had that tech in what? 98? ha

[pinkubento]

But how does a blind person know what a 2 looks like?

[jordinyc]

Next time you get off an elevator, look at the buttons where you press the floor button. In addition to the braile (which you may find in some of these elevators), there is also something which we call "raised numbers."

nyquil, all phones have voice recognition and "voice dialing" have you ever actually tried using it? If you've spoken with an automated system just once, you'll know how far behind that technology still is. This app is an alternative to something people already have.

[arserkal]

how do you get zero?

[thejakenixon]

at 2:32 you see that a zero is underneath of the 8

[mukaissi]

Hi

I'm the developer of "A Special Phone". An iPhone application intended to help people with special disabilities to make phone calls using the iPhone.

The application was released Friday, april the 3rd at 1am and it's available for download at the app store.

The word must know that an iPhone app also exists for people with special needs and it has several advantages over Google "Eyes-Free" :)

I will post a youtube video soon showing my iPhone app in action.

Thanks

[jordinyc]

I took a look at "A Special Phone" For the sake of people who have iPhones, I hope someone comes up with something better than an auto-dialer that makes you reliant on an able-bodied person to program it for you. If you know ANY disabled people, you'll know that's generally not exactly a welcome concept.

I am however guessing that AT&T and Apple are more than happy to let you encourage people to accidentally "shake" their iPod so hard that it flies out of their hand and breaks.

[r0dc]

Nice idea, but next time please skip all the details of "how you have to look at the screen to use a touch screen." That is obvious and you don't have to waste 1:30 minutes talking about that before talking about how your idea really works.

[jordinyc]

I agree that developers don't make great presenters. However it's 2009 and these guys probably can't afford a good presenter.

I think it's a brilliant app, but yeah, it needs a much better pitch.

[StoneCypher]

You get the first actual piece of information at 1:48. Basically he's reinvented what laser scanning keyboards do: it centers on where you originally touch, then you move somewhere else and it judges by distance traversed. Nothing new, nothing interesting.

[surfsagg03]

you know whats an even greater idea? voice activated dialing. click a button. say eight six seven five three zero nine, and jenny just answers. MAGIC, i know.

[shacker2762]

Indeed, but voice dialing isn't always convenient. The point is that voice dialing is an ADDITIONAL input method. This stroke dialing gives blind people an input method most others took for granted. This potentially opens up a whole new class of devices to the blind.

[RandyInFullAphex]

Simple and brilliant.

[tripomarto]

EXCELLENT IDEA!!!!

[drizzi990]

WOW!!