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Have you ever been given the wrong bottle of medicine but saw the label in time to avoid taking it? For blind people, medication errors can be difficult to avoid, and potentially dangerous. in Consumer Electronics Show 2026I’ve seen a way to prevent those errors that is a little cheaper than the common labeling method. It also uses a voice interface instead of typing.
Blind people have used label makers to print braille labels for some time, but they are expensive, costing up to $1,250. Mangoslab’s Nemonic Dot is a new contender in the braille branding space at a somewhat cheaper price tag of $995. The printer is seen as a way for family and friends to help their blind loved ones.
Mangoslab is a startup company It emerged from Samsung’s internal C-lab The research department has been releasing the Nemonic sticky note printer for years. in CES Unveiled this year, the group showcases its evolution of that printer in the Nemonic Dot. It’s a plastic box about the size of a stack of coasters that connects wirelessly to a smartphone. Using a special app, people speak the content of the label and TTS translates that first into text and then into Braille words. They are printed on adhesive tape that can be attached to whatever is described.
At its CES 2026 reveal, Mangolab showed off its Nemonic Dot printer — note the bright green label sticking out of it, and behind it in this photo, are pill bottles with orange labels.
In the Unveiled booth, easily confused items were labeled with Nemonic Dot strips, from salt and pepper shakers to pain relievers and probiotics, all in similarly sized bottles. With the stripes, they can be distinguished.
Traditional electronic braille label makers use direct typing of text, either using a Perkins-style braille button configuration or using a standard QWERTY keyboard. Nemonic Dot is a completely voice-based interface: you say a word out loud, it is converted into text and then into Braille on the smartphone app.
I saw the Nemonic Dot app translate spoken words into text, although I saw that it had difficulty recognizing long, specific words for common medications (acetaminophen, paracetamol). It was difficult to tell whether the glitch was due to the noise of a busy floor or the app not hearing properly — when it was closed and reopened, it understood the spoken words and translated them correctly.
It’s possible that an external text-to-speech service could read this back to a blind person to make sure the word they’re typing is accurate, but the Nemonic Dot as I saw it appears to have been designed as a device for sighted people to print labels for their blind friends and family. While there’s nothing wrong with that, it does cater the device to a different demographic than traditional Braille label makers — at least until more blind-friendly features are introduced in the Nemonic Dot app.
The Nemonic Dot is expected to be priced at $995, though that may change before the product goes on sale in the second quarter of 2026. Standard adhesive tape packages cost $5, and owners can also purchase a more solid copper tape, though Mangoslab has not yet set a price for that.