How do you design the guidance assist for blind people? By creation the tactile, easy-to-find tool, that’s how.

The Braille Alphabet Bracelet was written by Leslie Ligon, who has the blind son, as well as has only won a People’s Design Award from a Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. The ornament on the arm is simple, with an embossed minute on a single side of any shred as well as the Braille homogeneous upon a alternative. It is also pleasing, as well as creates a poetic piece of valuables in its own right.

It’s easy to make use of, as well as a blind owners can pick up the dotted alphabet only by hold, wherever they are, similar to the guilty Catholic nervously fingering a rosary. This is critical, as usually 10 percent of legally blind people in a US can read Braille nonetheless “at slightest 90 percent of the blind which reason jobs have been Braille literate.” So it seems similar to – as in a sighted world – you need to be means to review as well as write to consequence a living.

Want a single? They’re just $40. Amazingly, they used to be upon sale during Amazon, though right away you’ll need to conduct over to a National Braille Press to get a single. Available now in silver.

The Braille Alphabet Bracelet Wins a 2010 People’s Design Award [Cooper Hewitt]

Braille Bracelet product page [NBP]

Image: Cooper Hewitt