At first blush, the Dot looks remarkable. It’s a braille smartwatch that syncs to your iPhone or Android device, then displays the messages through four dynamic braille characters that pop up at the ...

ASouth Korean startup has created an active Braille smartwatch for the visuallyimpaired that can be read by touch. Aptly named Dot, the wearable relays the time with a set of pins that rise andfall.

A smartwatch with a unique interface is able to translate basic notifications for blind users by dynamically reproducing braille on its specialized surface — helping them stay connected in our modern ...

As more “smart” tech revolutionizes the way visually-abled people engage with the Internet and each other, it dawned on some researchers that there is an entire group of people being left out of the ...

Is it just me or is it ridiculous that it's 2011 and blind people are still walking around with sub-optimal time pieces? No offense to Chavez's sleek design but a silent watch with changing braille ...

All the way back in 2013, we reported on a mobile phone being created by an Indian start-up that would be the world’s first braille phone. Now in the world of wearable tech, say hello to the first ...

With just a few hours left to build a groundbreaking gadget, things weren't going as smoothly as planned. Six young women, all undergrad engineering students at MIT, had established a lofty goal: to ...

Whether you want to learn Braille or already know it and would finally like a piece of mobile technology that allows you to read the time and messages on a device smaller than sandwich slabs, Dot Inc.

On the surface, Dot sounds like a fairly standard smartwatch: It resembles a Fitbit and features a messaging system, navigation functions, Bluetooth 4.0, an alarm and, of course, a timepiece. Dot is ...

Wenger’s Braille Watch ($219.95) has a mineral crystal face that flips open for access to raised numerical markers that allow sight-impaired wearers to read the time by touch. The watch has a ...

David Chavez has a dream. He wants to build this wild-looking Braille watch that shows the time by moving little rotating dots along the face to spell out the numbers in Braille. Even if you’re not ...