We don’t provide much thought to deaf people of cell phones, but Pratt Institute student Suhyun Kim has worked hard on that amazing Visual Sound idea, which converts voice to text and vice versa.

The scroll-like device includes a touchscreen for text to be typed in, which then gets transformed to voice for the other person on the line, whose sound then becomes text for the deaf user of the cell phone to read. If the Visual Sound theory ever got put into production, I’ll be the first to snag one—not only does it look good, it also might help when phoning from noisy places, as I’m prone to do. [Yanko Design via Recombu] [Gizmodo]