For Japanese blind schoolchildren, the Internet is now not only a visual way to know the world, but rather a tactile one. The fact is that the Japanese search engine division Yahoo has developed a special machine that allows blind children to use the search and literally touch their search query.
Japanese Yahoo and creative Japanese agency Hakuhodo Kettle have created a Hands On Search device — partly a computer, partly a 3D printer — that can print a 3D object you are looking for on the Internet.
For example, students from the Educational School for Visually Impaired Children, where On Search is currently installed, need to find an image of an object on the Internet. They go to the Hands On Search machine, say, for example, “giraffe” or “bug” or “Tokyo Sky Tree” (the highest TV tower in the world, for a minute), click the search button, the computer finds the desired image, and the built-in 3D printer immediately prints out a 3D model of a giraffe, beetle or the desired building. According to representatives of the Japanese Yahoo, in the case of when the computer does not find the desired search object, he asks the student and asks for more detailed information about this object. At the moment, the search base contains just over a hundred 3D models of various objects, but Yahoo hopes that other companies will also contribute and create a more extensive search base.
Japanese Yahoo representatives say they have no plans to commercialize such a system. The car will be left at the Educational School for Visually Impaired Children until mid-October, and after that they are going to transfer it to another organization that needs such technology the most.
“After that, we are going to give the car as a gift to another organization that will need it more than any other. The decision on what kind of organization this will be will be made at the end of October, ”said Kazuaki Hashida, creative director of Hakuhodo Kettle.
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