It is just a project done by school students. Most of such things never hit the market. So, a very long way to go...
With thanks and regards (Rajesh Asudani) Assistant General Manager Market Intelligence Unit Reserve Bank of India Nagpur Tel.: 0712 2806358 (In youth you want things, and then in middle-age you want to want them.) -----Original Message----- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of gtm.agra...@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 9:53 PM To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning the disabled. Subject: Re: [AI] Narayana students win CBSE national science exhibition -----Original Message----- From: rajendra dhurve Sent: 16/09/2014, 5:52 pm To: Parmala Bhat; AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning the disabled. Subject: Re: [AI] Narayana students win CBSE national science exhibition how much does it cost?? and how many pieces r available in the indian market. and how can we order it? regards: RD On 9/16/14, Parmala Bhat <parimala2...@gmail.com> wrote: > o that's grate. my hearty congratulations to this team for this valuable > contribution. what a remarkable idea moreover the efforts and the brain > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kotian, H P" <hpkot...@rbi.org.in> > To: "AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues > concerningthe disabled." <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> > Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 2:53 PM > Subject: [AI] Narayana students win CBSE national science exhibition > > >> Forwarding an email that hasn't reached the list. >> >> From: Asudani, Rajesh [mailto:rajeshasud...@rbi.org.in] >> Sent: 16 September 2014 07:39 >> To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning >> >> the disabled. >> Subject: Narayana students win CBSE national science exhibition >> >> >> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/Narayana-students-win-CBSE-national-science-exhibition/articleshow/42560394.cms >> Nagpur: An innovative project by two Std IX students of Narayana >> Vidyalayam won the 'best project' award at the national level CBSE Science >> >> Exhibition 2013-14. Aditya Bhopale and Kartikeya Rehpade designed a device >> >> that helps visually impaired people not only read text but also identifies >> >> obstacles around them to aid in walking. >> >> The "Solar Audio Book For The Visually Impaired" project has also landed >> both the whiz kids an invite to the US from tech giant Intel Corporation. >> >> A jubilant Aditya Bhopale said, "The results were announced on Sunday in >> New Delhi and the competition was extremely stiff. There were 350 projects >> >> from across the country and each one was very good. Our product was unique >> >> because it provided a valuable service to the visually impaired." >> >> The audio book device is just the size of regular novel but weighs around >> >> 400 grams. It runs on solar power and is the perfect mix of a device that >> >> mixes social responsibility and technology. Aditya said, "Our device reads >> >> scanned text aloud that will help visually impaired people get access to >> books and other text oriented things. Scanned images of texts from >> newspapers, magazine etc can be transferred to our device via Bluetooth. I >> >> have also added space for expandable external memory so that scanned text >> >> images can be stored." >> >> The ultra sonic mapping helps identify objects within a 3 metre perimeter, >> >> which is beneficial to the visually impaired. Aditya, said, "Through >> vibrations the person holding it will come to know about the obstacles in >> >> his way." The device has a battery life of 7-13 hours and needs hardly >> half an hour of direct sunlight to get fully charged. >> >> It took Aditya and Kartikeya almost three months before they came up with >> >> a working model of the device. Aditya said, "In March we were informed >> about the competition by the CBSE and our school finalized both of us for >> >> the project. Our science teachers, Dhanashree Waikar, Aparna Pillai, >> Poonam Karunakarm, Supriya Abdeo and Siddharth Sontakke suggested we must >> >> make a device for the visually impaired after which we went through a lot >> >> of options. In the end, we zeroed in on the audio book because it is >> unique and had not been made before. By June last week, a working model >> was ready and then only the refinements remained." Kartikeya made a >> perfect partner to Aditya contributing to the aesthetics of the device. 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