{"id":16375,"date":"2017-02-26T11:13:09","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T19:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=16375"},"modified":"2017-02-26T11:14:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T19:14:43","slug":"dot-the-first-braille-smartwatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2017\/02\/26\/dot-the-first-braille-smartwatch\/","title":{"rendered":"Dot, the First Braille Smartwatch!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This is so cool! This is <a href=\"https:\/\/dotincorp.com\">Dot<\/a>, the world&#8217;s first smartwatch for blind and visually impaired people!! <\/strong><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"661\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16384\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dot-braille-smartwatch-2.jpg\" alt=\"Dot-braille-smartwatch-2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dot-braille-smartwatch-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dot-braille-smartwatch-2-620x640.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\n<p><strong>Four moving braille characters display messages at a time on the watch&#8217;s face.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"giphy-embed\" src=\"\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/vs2RZrVdOXtO8\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>A few years ago, Dot&#8217;s\u00a0founder and CEO Eric Kim saw a blind classmate &#8220;hauling large, bulky books during his studies at the University of Washington&#8221; while everyone else was using a digital tablet. He realized that there&#8217;s a technology gap for visually-impaired people and started developing this special watch.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>via <a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2017\/02\/22\/dot-smartwatch-retails\/#P9eK72rEiaqq\">Mashable<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch this:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class='flex-video widescreen'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Every step of the journey is beautiful. | Dot Watch | Dot Inc.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZtyIo7TI7HQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16378\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dot-the-braille-smartwatch.jpg\" alt=\"Dot-the-braille-smartwatch\" \/>\n<p><strong>After three years of &#8220;repeated start and stops&#8221; in development, the watch is now shipping to its 140K pre-order customers! Including Stevie Wonder!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is so cool! This is Dot, the world&#8217;s first smartwatch for blind and visually impaired people!! Four moving braille characters display messages at a time on the watch&#8217;s face.\u00a0 A few years ago, Dot&#8217;s\u00a0founder and CEO Eric Kim saw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16386,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16375\/revisions\/16386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}