Tech Shout!

After the Vibrating Braille Mobile Phone and a Mobile Phone Software that helps the visually impaired, technology again lends its helping hand to the visually impaired with the Sens Phone. The Sens Phone offers help not only to the blind, but also to people having issues with eyesight or have partial blindness.

Designed by Takumi Yoshida, the Sens phone is a sleek handset with protruding keypads that will allow the visually impaired person to feel the phone and use it accordingly. The phone’s keypad and design is so interesting that even a person with perfect sight can touch and feel it. Since it is a visually impaired man’s phone, it doesn’t have a display screen and the keypad is the heart and brain of the phone. Since the phone presents itself to the partially blind, it also flashes a bright blue light on the side panels which help convey different alert messages.

The Vibrating Braille Mobile Phone seemed to be a little bulky and lacked in style, but the Sens phone revamps itself with a stylish design and the phone’s vital purpose is also served. There is no clarity in the pricing and availability of the Sens phone though.