Touch
Graphics, Inc. working with Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Institute have developed the "next big thing" in audio-tactile graphics. This new technology combines our very high quality tactile and visual materials with a portable "smart pen" device; users explore the tactile image with their hands, then use the pen as a "description probe" to hear relevant audio information about any part of the image they touch with the pen's tip.
In addition, here are some of our projects using the Talking Tactile Pen:
TTP Stem Binder
Intrepid Sea, Air & Space
Complex Museum Guide
Touch Graphics
Happy 2012 Card
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Teapots book
Bay Area Rapid Transit
(BART) Maps
National Air & Space Museum
(page coming soon)
On July 21, participants in NFB's 2011Youth Slam in a lab at Townson University. The students first reviewed shark anatomy using Touch Graphics' Talking Tactile Pen, and a page of audio-tactile illustrations showing the shark in side view, cross sections and details. Students touched the tip the pen to hear information about each organ, fin or other feature, and then explored the real animal in small groups.