Description

PIAF Tactile Image Maker: Touching is believing

Can a picture be touched? Can touch see a picture. Images and graphics help understand what is difficult to be described by words. Images rise and are ready in an instant. Draw, print or copy pictures onto the Piaf swell paper and pass it through the Piaf and all the black lines and shapes swell to create a drawing that can be read with the fingers.

High Quality Tactile Graphics in a Flash

Piaf produces high quality tactile graphics using heat sensitive capsule paper. It is ideal for people who are blind and vision impaired. Piaf’s controlled heat source causes any black lines, letters or shapes that are drawn, printed or copied onto the capsule paper to swell. The result is an instant tactile graphic. It is especially effective when used with the Tangible Magic Paper. This paper with its superb characteristics allows the user to run it through the PIAF multiple times without compromising the quality of what has already been puffed up. This feature makes producing and handling tactile images more interactive and dynamic.

Piaf is being used in a variety of educational, employment and personal settings.

Education

In early education Piaf can be used to introduce simple shapes and basic concepts; to introduce the concept of drawing and two-dimensional rendering of solid objects; to encourage students in taking the first tentative steps to expressing themselves graphically; and to teach the concepts of handwriting and signatures. Later, Piaf can be used to access graphical information in nearly all subject areas especially Mathematics and Sciences.

Orientation and Mobility

Piaf can produce high-quality local area maps for orientation and mobility training, or make campus or building maps for students or employees.

Employment

With Piaf, blind and vision impaired people can understand the information on a computer screen, grasp organisational structure of the business and access sales charts. One or two tactile diagrams can save thousands of words.

Home

Piaf can be used to make a chess board accessible, accessing pictures to know the difference between a giraffe and a leopard, and exploring world maps to identify where countries are located.

Tangible Magic Paper

Tactual ingenuity at its best

Tangible Magic Paper will offer tactile image experience unattainable before. The paper can be run through your tactile image making device multiple times without compromising existing elements. Your image stays clear and crisp. You do not need to run the image maker at a full throttle. The image will puff up even at lower temperatures.

Piaf is high-quality Tactile Graphics with high quality swell paper.

Piaf produces high quality tactile graphics using heat sensitive Tactile Magic Paper. It is ideal for people who are blind or have low vision. Piaf’s controlled heat source causes any black lines, letters or shapes that are drawn, printed or copied onto the capsule paper to swell. The result is an instant tactile graphic. It is especially effective when used with the Tactile Magic Paper. This paper with its superb characteristics allows the user to run it through the PIAF multiple times without compromising the quality of what has already been puffed up. This feature makes producing and handling tactile images more interactive and dynamic.