Braille Displays to Be Powered by Artificial Muscles From: Sci Pry - 08/16/2009 By: Tudor Vieru According to experts at the NASA-operated Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, CA, artificial muscles could be one possible answer to the problems associated with creating a refreshable braille display. “I hope that sometime in the future we will have Braille on an iPhone. It will be portable and able to project a picture of a neighborhood popping up in front of you in the form of raised dots. A digital Braille operated by artificial muscles could provide for rapid information exchange, such as e-mail, text messaging and access to the web and other electronic databases or archives,” explains Yosi-Bar Cohen. Read the entire article at: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Braille-Displays-To-Be-Powered-by-Artificial-Muscles-119354.shtml Links: Yosi-Bar Cohen http://ndeaa.jpl.nasa.gov/nasa-nde/yosi/yosi.htm http://spie.org/app/profiles/viewer.aspx?profile=QAFMYV Full-page Braille reader instills new age electronics for blind http://www.gizmowatch.com/tags/yosi-bar-cohen/ iPhones for the Blind http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-08/iphones-blind Braille Displays Get New Life With Artificial Muscles http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2278