A concept digital camera for the visually impaired, like Touch Sight, would allow users to record a 3-second sound description for each picture they take. This feature activates when the shutter button is press, so that, at a later, time, users can easily manage pictures.
The ideas comes from Samsung Design China and received Gold at International Design Excellence Awards 2008.
Besides having an ergonomic design and a very appealing modern look, the digital camera doesn’t have an LCD display type but a Braille screen with 3D images created from the surface. The user knows how to handle it by touching these shaped images and listening to the audio reviews.


"The concept was immediately compelling by raising the potential of greater communication between the visually impaired and family and friends,” said Thomas Garvey, Associate Professor, School of Industrial Design, Carleton University from Canada. “The number of well considered details, the visual approach and the very comprehensive presentation materials lifted this concept easily into the top category."

Users having the same digital camera model would be able to share images with each other by uploading and downloading these probably wirelessly.

This concept remembers us of the Siafu PC, a sleek computer design featuring a technology that might be the one used in the Touch Sight. Siafu can be controlled by visually impaired people based on the magneclay concept material, which can morph upward into any shape, displaying landscapes in 3D reliefs. Theoretically, the magneclay can be developed from an oil-based synthetic agent with morphic capabilities. It responds to electric and magnetic charges rearranging itself in any shape.
Researchers have managed to develop a material with similar proprieties but it changes the shape only according to the light conditions and temperatures, like plants bending towards the sun.