Braille keyboard at your IPAD fingertips?

"More than 6.6 million americans over 16 are visually impaired"

“Now they can use an iPad and they’re the cool kid,” he says. “They have the coolest technology in the classroom.” Summers also notes that this keyboard app could allow blind users to type incredibly quickly."

Reblogged from Wired: 
http://www.wired.com/2015/01/ibrailler-ipad-app/

Visual impairment statistics:
https://nfb.org/blindness-statistics

How do you navigate on the web and in real life?

Braillesign found at an exit on a train in Sweden

In real life, braille signs are not necessarily readable by seeing people. Why is it so? And how do blind people know to where to find the signs? How do they know when they not should look for a sign?

DIY: A braille printer made by lego...

And it is much cheaper than a regular braille printer....
 It is not fast, but it is a proof of concept.