Touch-Hear Concept
What happens when you need to know more about a given term, person, event or whatever you come across? Before the proliferation of the Internet, when you needed to know more details of some particular thing, you could check an encyclopedia. Now we have Wikipedia and other online encyclopedias that can be easily updated, unlike the paper versions, which have to be reprinted every year. Apparently, there still are some regions left without Internet access, where the access to education is not a priority. Instead of making use of the One Laptop per Child policy and implement wireless Internet infrastructures, these unfortunate regions could use some new technology which can place the information source right on the fingertips, literally.
According to Slashgear, Touch-Hear is an innovative system which lets you tap any word you see in a book and then hear an explanation or definition of that word. Foreign words are translated, or in case no translation exists, the foreign term is explained and described in a simple manner. Major events, locations, important personalities and other terms of interest are also defined and explained for you.
Responsible for the Touch-Hear concept is Design Incubation Centre from Singapore. The Asian institute wanted to provide new ways of gaining access to education for children coming from underdeveloped countries.
