ABTIM

ADVANCED DISPLAYS for the BLIND

Grand Opening of the NFB Research and Training Institute on Jan. 30. 2004

The National Federation of the Blind (NFB) raised about 20 million US Dollars for the new Research and Training Institute within a couple of years. In the meantime the building for the new institute is ready. It is a wonderful architecture showing a mixture of classic red bricks and roundet parts of the building with large windows. The Grand Opening is on Jan. the 30th 2004 in Baltimore.

Dr. Betsy Zaborowski is the head of the institute which will develope new devices for blind people, new training methodes and programs to get into a job. ABTIM is talking with the NFB RTI about common projects. The NFB is owner of a VideoTIM device.

Here are some numbers from NFB statistics: There are 1.1 million blind people in the USA, 57,000 of this are children, 788,000 are elderly. There will be 1.6 million blind people in 2015 and 2.4 million in 2030. The unemploymentrate is at 74%.

CeBIT 2002 Prize

With almost 8000 exhibitors and more than 700,000 visitors the CeBIT in Hannover, Germany, is the world´s largest computer fair. VideoTIM was nominated as most innovative product by the CHIP computer magazin. VideoTIM was shown in a dozend TV programmes, many radio reports, newspapers, magazins and internet news-sites.

ABTIM  in association with the University of Wuppertal showed for the first time a videocamera directed to a white board. Everything appearing on the white board was live transmitted to the TIM display. Any journalist had to make the test guessing which letters were shown on the tactile monitor. They were astonished how easy tactile reading with VideoTIM is.

The University of Wuppertal showed a collection of pictures and musik notes for blind people on PC-TIM.

Our blind visitors had a lot of fun with the interactive games we presented on PC-TIM.

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