Haptica Braille Watch Seeks Crowd Sourced Funding Via Kickstarter.com
Product designer David Chavez has launched a project on kickstarter.com in hopes of securing the necessary funds to finalize the technology exploration for his award winning Haptica Braille watch.
- (1888PressRelease) February 09, 2011 - SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - David Chavez, a San Francisco based product designer, is raising funds via Kickstarter to finalize the technology for his Haptica™ Braille watch. Chavez hopes to use those funds to bring his concept to market. The Haptica concept has been honored with both IDEA and Spark awards and was recently featured in the 2010 National Design Triennial at Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York. Haptica allows blind people to check the time quickly and accurately without an audible disruption. Kickstarter is a crowd sourced funding platform for creative projects.
Haptica presents a logical alternative for the blind and replaces the archaic products currently available. It provides precision and discretion to the user and seeks to improve the quality of life for a consumer market that is oftentimes over looked. Like most products for people with disabilities, it's somewhat of a niche market. Many products in this category are clumsy and unappealing. Raising funds or finding a big company to back these kinds of products is difficult. By harnessing the power of crowd sourcing, a great concept can become a great product and we won't have to compromise the creative process. We'll be able to create a product that will be both functional and beautiful.
Kickstarter has helped thousands of creative people successfully fund projects that might otherwise not be brought to fruition. Visit https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1294391907/haptica-braille-watch for more information about the Haptica project on Kickstarter's website.
For more information about David Chavez and his work, visit www.david-chavez.com.
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