Well, doesn't this sound neat and useful: light-driven plastic motor. I wonder if they could make a braille display with it--wait, published in 2008? And I only just heard of it?
But, hey, maybe someone is working on a braille display using cheap polymer-based actuation? Pocket Braille sounds neat--wait, 2005? Bu... wha.... huh?
Something more recent? Umm, Did this actually happen in Thailand, or is it just the same as the rest?
Gah! Can't we just shrink a pneumatic action pipe organ and put rubber on the pipes? ... I guess we'll find out by the end of July, but... can we do it, you know, without being linked to the flippin' cloud?
OK, maybe we're doomed to use calculator-length displays forever. Can a halfway cheap one hit the market at some point, at least?
No? Nothing?
I mean, sure, this is materials science and chemistry and engineering and microfluidics and so on. It's complicated. And it's a small market with expensive research.
But you mean to tell me that nothing has come of any endeavors, what-so-ever, for the past 30 years?
You know, no one ever posts articles on why these quietly disappear, or why release dates get pushed back for whole years until companies catch on and stop announcing them, or if they run out of funding or can't get materials / people / manufacturing facilities...
So, yeah, what's going on?
Is every one of these that complicated? That expensive? Is the clash of capitalism and wellfare making the market so bad that there is no point of entry?
Surely these must have something in common, something more specific than "braille innovations never work", something actionable...
Anything?
Maybe, the missing ingredient is a generous princess.
"If you want utopia but reality gives you Lovecraft, you don't give up, you carve your utopia out of the corpses of dead gods."
MaxAngor wrote:
George... Don't do that.