Based upon the Computer-Braille input method. I think this is mad brilliant. I certainly would like to see how accurate I could become with practice. One flaw I can imagine, since my phone is having this precise issue; what happens when part of the touch screen fails? Obviously there is a feedback response but suppose the input is only slightly off, we’d misspell some serious odd words using only 6 points of input. Oh well I can’t wait to see what happens.

Braille Touch would change that. It is based on Computer Braille, a system of typing that allows users to input up to 63 characters through pressing different combinations of just six buttons — three on each side of the phone. Users of this new typing system hold the phone facing away from the body, using the middle three fingers of each hand to chord in letters, numbers and characters such as exclamation points and the “at” sign. Spaces and backspaces can be entered through gestures of flicking left or right on the phone.

In user tests conducted by the Georgia Tech researchers, some visually impaired people were able to reach up to 32 words per minute with 92% accuracy with a prototype app for the iPhone.