The Braille concept for the visually impaired was a fine concept, but it was not complete, as the majority of the lore existed in the regular books. This implied that special books equipped with the Braille technology had to be manufactured for the blind, and this in turn deprived them of the knowledge that the normal folks assimilated in their lifetime. But this was only until the voice stick arrived. Designed by Sungwoo Park, the Voice stick is an advanced optical character recognition scanner intended to make all books available to the visually impaired.

It works by passing the wand over each page in a top-to-bottom fashion, where in, text is translated and read to you in a friendly voice. This gadget is particularly useful for translating texts from books, newspapers, contracts, mail, business cards etc into voice information.

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