[BRLTTY] Technological developments in braille displays

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Jason White wrote:

> Two interesting current products from my point of view are the Braillex 
> Elba from Papenmeier, as it runs Linux, and the Braille Star from 
> Handytech which tries to be both a braille display and, in a limited 
> form, a text reading/note taking device. Baum's Vario displays are also 
> excellent.

One possibility to consider is a BlueTooth enabled braille display (like 
the SuperVario or the Brailliant which are pretty small and slick), and 
add to that a BlueTooth keyboard.  Then you just need any of the 
mainstream PDA to serve as the actual core device, or a small laptop or 
whatever.  Oh and why not BlueTooth headphones while at it!

If you go the PDA route, you can have a setup which is even smaller than 
a laptop alone.  And the advantage over a combined solution like the 
Elba or the BrailleStar or BrailleNote is that you can easily upgrade 
the PDA alone when it becomes obsolete at a much lower cost.


Nicolas