While designing and brainstorming the Bradley timepiece, the EONE team met with visually impaired users and were surprised to find that blind users were as concerned with the appearance of the timepiece as sighted members of the EONE team.
The Bradley timepiece tactile watch for the blind and people with vision loss as well as people who are sighted. Hyungsoo found that all mainstream watches and clocks require sight, which makes most mainstream watches inconvenient or even impossible for people with visual forms of disabilities to use.Īrticle continues below image. The idea for the Bradley came from Hyungsoo, who founded EONE. Every iteration of the timepiece evolved from group interviews and co-design sessions with people from a number of different backgrounds. A person should not have to, 'watch,' their timepiece in order to tell the time, which is why EONE calls the Bradley a, 'timepiece,' instead of a, 'watch.'įor two years, EONE has tested and prototyped different versions of the Bradley timepiece. It changes the way people interact with the timepieces created by EONE. The timepiece was created in collaboration with engineers, product designers and people with vision loss. The shake allows magnetic force to place the ball bearings back to their appropriate place. If the person's fingers move the ball bearings while they check the time, the timepiece can be reset to the appropriate time with an easy shake of the wrist. The top ball bearing indicates minutes, while the one on the side indicates hours. The timepiece features ball bearings connected to magnets which provide watch movement underneath the face. The Bradley timepiece has precise Swiss Quartz movement controlling its functionality. The timepiece has a brushed titanium body and the buyer's choice of a stainless steel mesh or leather and fabric band in olive green, yellow, or silver-blue. People who are sighted might also approve of the Bradley timepiece's elegant and simple design. Instead, the person simply uses a finger to tell what time it is. The timepiece allows most people, with or without vision loss, to check the time without the use of either a watch light or a voice-presented time of day. The timepiece gets around the issues mentioned by using raised hash marks and a pair of ball bearings that rotate to designate both hours and minutes. The Bradley timepiece is a tactile watch for people who experience vision loss as well as people who are sighted. The drawback of touch watches is the potential to damage or break the analog hands during use. The drawbacks to these watches is, for talking watches, the inability to hear the watch in loud places. The watches included ones that speak to the individual, the other is the kind of watch that permits the user to touch the hands of the clock face. In the past, people who experience visual disabilities had two basic types of watches available to them. Synopsis: The Bradley timepiece is a tactile watch for people who experience vision loss as well as people who are sighted. On This Page: Summary - Main Article - About/Author
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