Multi-Sensory technology has always been an interest of mine because of my fascination with gaming. In order to experience something to the best of its ability, you must first be able to use as many senses as possible to believe that it is real. Most software just uses sight and sound. Yet we should also remember that senses do not stand alone. They can blend together in order to simulate a new sense. When we see an image, we can hear a sound sometimes, and when we smell something, we can taste it.

So with this information, the fact that that these people were able to create the Boston Linetype, an alphabet that would be accessible to both the visually impaired and nonvisually impaired, was very impressive. Though this design came with many of its own practical issues. The lettering was much more complicated then braille and took longer for one to read and learn. Of course, I do not know the answer to fix this, but the fact does lie some of these problems do arise with this new form of blind reading.

Haptic technologies are less expensive and not as widely used, so the technology seems less “privileged” than other audiovisual technologies. Though to me this seems strange because one would think that if it costs less, it would be more widely used. But it seems that the difference in the functionality adds to this definition of privileged.