Comments on: Braille Language E Book Reader

By: BH

BH — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:59:09 +0000

I’ve read a number of articles on this device, and one thing that’s very odd is that most of the people writing them really seem to act like the whole idea of non-paper braille is new. Folks, refreshable braille displays have been around for at least 30 years. Portable hand-held braille devices have been very popular for a long time too and plenty of blind people already read books that way… The challenge is NOT making a refreshable braille display to read books, it’s 1) making a CHEAP one; the existing ones are crazily expensive, and 2) actually getting the written material to people — i.e., getting publishers to release computer files in braille format or in some text format that can be converted to braille (i.e., ascii or something).

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Braille Transcribed Using Lego Blocks | DoGizmo — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:32:53 +0000

[...] medium of choice for Braille literature. Anthony Sava has created a Lego based design which carries Braille language text made of Lego buttons. The text reads “Leg Godt” which means “Play [...]

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Braille Transcribed Using Lego Blocks | Walyou — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:58:58 +0000

By: dbReader

dbReader — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:23:25 +0000

This is something unbelievable. Seems that this technology is very promising for the specific market area. Outer look of the device deserves very good marks.