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Kids Of A School For Visually Impaired Children For The First Time Able To Know The Shape Of Things
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Internet Look-up Innovation. People like us can immediately view search results, but visually impaired children cannot do this.
In case of a text result, you can somehow read it to them, but in case of visual data such as pictures or video's, it's difficult to express this to them.
One method which might be a solution for this might be the "Touchable Search." Through the usage of a 3D printer, a 3d version of the search results are printed out.
Seeing a girl touch a 3D reproduction of the Skytree as she mutters to herself, "So this is what it's shaped like...", conveys the concept wonderfully.
Here's the making of the video: