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Thimble concept finger glove works with phone to help blind people in their daily lives
Some designers have come up with a video demonstrating a design concept called The Thimble. The Thimble is a one finger glove that contains an optical scanner which can scan text and translate them into Braille. The glove will then present the Braille text to the user who can read it just by feeling the bumps move across his/her fingers. The Thimble also connects to a phone using Bluetooth to make it location aware, and can connect to the internet to deliver news right to your fingertips (literally). A very nifty idea which could really aid the blind. Though if they use it, they’ll have to walk around with an expensive glove and let’s not forget the smartphone. Watch the video of the concept design after the break:
The title says it all, and that was pretty quick. It was only yesterday when the iOS 5 was announced and the beta was made available to developers but yet wasting little to no time, hackers MuscleNerd and Co have managed to jailbreak iOS 5 on the iPod touch fourth generation. The exploit they used was the limera1n jailbreak which means that iOS 5 presented the hackers with little surprises when it came to closing the loop holes that would make the limera1n exploit work.
Naturally the iOS 5 is currently in beta which means there are probably still plenty of holes to be exploited and we can only assume that in the final release iOS 5 would-be hackers will have a harder time trying to jailbreak it. However this is good news for those on jailbroken devices who were worried that they might be in for a rather long wait when it comes to getting the jailbroken version if iOS 5 on their devices.
Anyone who has owned an iOS device knows that upon out of the box, the first thing they see is their device asking them to tether it to their computer in order to set up synch with iTunes. Not necessarily a bad thing but what if the person’s computer was not well equipped enough to run iTunes properly or what if they didn’t know what all these synching meant?
Tabbed browsing isn’t new. In fact there are browser apps already available for iOS that features tabbed browsing, but either way we are happy that Apple has decided to sit up and take notice of what users want in their browsers and finally implemented tabbed browsing in their native iOS browser app, Safari.