After Stevie Wonder’s statement, some discussions started in blogs and portals of the design world, design of interaction and development. For example, the questioning started by the site design.com.br about the Touchscreen Era. Check their position.

MIT Professionals develop a seeing machine. With an innovative concept, the machine looks for healthy cells in the person’s eye and focuses the image on them, creating the possibility for some handicapped people to see. See full article.

The musician Stevie Wonder approaches visually handicapped people to technology. In his speech at CES 2009, he openly comments about the need for accessible electronic equipment and that this ‘touch revolution` does not help the handicapped to have access to them. Other statements were:

“We don’t want to hold the technological process”, said he. “What we are saying is that they should think about the interface and create it so that its use is simple… The simpler the interface of a product, the more people it will reach, blind or not.”

You will find next the interview given to IG Tv during the III Mobile Fest 2008 briefly explaining the Zeta concept.

We show how easy it is to write in Zeta. Remember that the geometric shape of the letter is associated to the keyboard of the cellular phone. On the Multi-tap you would type 4 times to make the letter S, with Zeta it’s only two digits.

The Zeta project will be presented at the MobileFest08 in São Paulo, an event that involves the mobile community. Videos, poems, songs will be presented, all of them created through the cellular phone. This year the event mobilizes the third sector and the functions for the accessibility and usability. At this moment zeta enters for an interesting presentation. Tap, access, and check!

Next comes a video published by the WARAU people, supporting the accessibility in the web and mobile gadgets. The developed a video with an interesting statement about how it works and the needs of a visually handicapped person.

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People from the occidental world see the Indian language characters as something from another world. But for Zeta it is real. The whole language was developed to HÏNDI, official language of India, where there are more than 70 dialects.

Nowadays the difficulty to send an SMS is huge. You need to write phonetically, send to YAHOO server and receive it back coded in Hindi. Do you believe it? Well, this is how the most populous country in the world exchanges SMS in its language.

A development chief at a large manufacturer proposed the challenge and… Done! The Zeta team created the Hindi Zeta. To know it, just access here the Indian cellular.

What will the next challenge be?

Now you already may write the Greek alphabet with ZETA!

Enter in the area destined to learn Zeta and try to type the characters in Greek.

And get ready: we’re finishing the Thai version.

An alpha greeting.

ZETA development team.