Verbatim's parent company, Mitsubishi Chemical, has announced that they've
developed a new type of CD-R media for people with weak or no vision at all. These new discs feature a special surface where information
like the type, capacity and rated speed are printed in braille code. Here's part of their press release, translated from
Japanese:
Mitsubishi chemical media
corporation (head office: The tokyo Minato-ku, president: Otsuka it is heavy virtue and below “MKM”), the Braille attachment CD-R which
can grasp the letter of the disk surface with feeling (postscript type) we sell the disk in this year 8 end of the month. Besides the
fact that the Braille convex (with densely) by the fact that letter is printed on the disk surface, standard and capacity etc of the disk
can be read, the identification of the inside and outside becomes easy.
No word on price or availability. If you'd like to
read more, Mitsubishi's entire press release can be found here.
