Litch (Light Touch)

Litch is a project that seeks to put equality in the equation of education of all the blind people.

There are many several kinds of disabilities and all of them are severe but none of these disabilities take from the disabled the ability to learn or the ability to read as they are the same but one of the most disabilities that takes the ability to learn from the disabled is blindness but thanks to alot of brilliant inventors there is now alot of inventions that helps eliminating the blindness of the mind of the blind people but the problem with all these brilliant ideas that it costs alot that alot of people can't afford it and also alot of countries can't afford to make this service available for blind people specially for one like my country Egypt as it has about 1.8 million blind and most of them don't get the these expensive and also necessary services as it's the case for alot of other countries and this makes it harder for any blind in these countries to learn properly or I may say to learn like a normal human and it's also hard for blind children to learn the Braille reading system as all the sources that they rely on are the the traditional Braille paper books and there is another problem that most of the Braille electronic devices are not easy to carry out with you as they are big and heavy.

My solution is a new braille electronic book system that instead of relying on a big screen to show the braille text like mobile phones and tablets I use what I call a finger book technique that takes the concept of touching the text to read it and alternates it into a new system that brings the book to the blind's finger instead of him touching the electronic book. As the device will be like a glove that a blind will wear and at the area of the glove where his finger tips will be touching there will be the braille touching bumps that will alternate the feeling of reading a braille book and at the same time it will take a smaller area and it will be alot lighter and alot cheaper than the other braille electronic devices and it uses the concept of magnetic repulsion to make the pins (that gives the feeling of braille letters) move up and down. And at the position of the palm of the hand in the glove there will be a small camera that helps if the blind wants to translate any normal text into a braille text and there will be a USB port and an SD card slot at the area of the wrist of the glove to storage a big number of books in the device.

My solution is targeting all blind people from toddlers to elders to improve their ability to read financially by making a device that is cheaper for them and mentally by making it alot easier for them to search and read . And as I mentioned before that many countries doesn't have the financial ability to support blind people with the best and the more capable braille electronic devices so the blind people there and in my country doesn't get the proper education like many other countries and they doesn't have the freedom to search and seek for knowledge like normal humans.

I am working alone and I am studying engineering at college. in my days at high school I was reading in technology and I was working on some projects that helped me collect the idea of the device together . And I had some experiences in my life that showed me the suffer of those who don't have the ability to learn and search freely ,so that helped me to think how to help those people to get the proper conditions of education that they deserve.

I searched for all the devices that have been made to help blind people in reading and I understood all the pros and cons of these devices. I worked with some people that had dealt with blind people before and some information about them . And I searched for the conditions of education of blind people in my country and other countries .