We don't know what it's like to be blind, but we often suffer from
acute blogger's eye fatigue and would love nothing more to pound out our ramblings in a no-look manner -- if only we could read them back afterward without letting all those ultra-harsh light particles and / or waves back into our brains. Well, a
Braille display and Braille keyboard obviously solves that problem, and the BrailleNote Apex from HumanWare is purportedly the thinnest and lightest notetaker for the blind yet. It runs Windows CE 6, with a decent variety of accessible software, and is targeted at serious students and professionals, with 8GB of built-in flash storage, an SD card slot, WiFi, Ethernet, Bluetooth, and a trio of USB ports. No word on a price or release date, but it sounds pretty kitted out, and these things typically don't come cheap.
posted Nov 13th 2009 10:39PM
wow paul way to completely trivialize the blind in the first sentence
Seriously. If you've never been blind, of course you don't know what it's like to be blind. Duh!
Way to punish those who can see with the length of that first sentence too.
Hi Paul, I just got off the phone with sprint tech support (which I was on with them for 3 hrs) and I am having some problems with my hero. For starters I cannot receive texts or pic mail for 2 weeks now. Second, they finally got my voicemail working and I am finally getting my voicemails, but it does not notify me when I have a voicemail and it doesnt come through as visual voicemail. The only way I know that I have a voicemail is to go the the keypad and the number 1 key has a tiny envelope if I have a new vm. You seem very smart and I was wondering if you could possibly help me with my Hero. I love the phone, when it is working right. It just stopped working about 2 weeks ago.
I work for sprint and still cant get the appropriate help. Although the tech was very nice and seems truly dedicated. I can send texts, but cannot receive them, weird hu? Thank You so much for your help in this matter. Tina
so using any of the ports would be through touch and feel eh?
*waits for puns*
I'll show you trivializing the blind.
Hey blink! Want to play some video games with me... Oh wait your blind sorry.
/am I going to hell?
Did anyone other than me LOL at the VGA port on that thing?
But seriously why would you want to make a notetaker for the blind so small? I don't get it, I guess they do have hightened touch senses though.
VGA port, I know, the travesty of it! Even the blind deserve modern standards like HDMI, for shame BrailleNote.
That kid isn't blind, he's faking it so he can sleep in class!
Yeah, I was wondering about the VGA port as well.
@Ducman69
HA!
That actually looks kinda slick.
Yeah the shadow of Jason about to kill him? I would say so...
He never saw him coming.
YYYYYYYEAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH
kid is totally lookin at porn on that thing...
Where is the scree..oh wait.
You plug one into the vga port...does anyone else wonder why on earth that is there?
So not-blind people can see the notes?
well, maybe if he opened his eyes, he would actually see
lol
Sweetie, nobody likes a douche bag.
I don't know about that... Dane Cook seems to be pretty popular.
I can only imagine what they told the kid.
'OK buddy, just close your eyes and act like you cant see anything. Thats it! Freeze right there!'
Not cool!
Blind? What are you on about it's just a normal guy relaxing, playing some music on his miniature keyboard!?
Normal kid? Look at him! What are you? BLIND?!
what is that shadow man holding ??
That better not be Jason standing over a blind kid. Seriously?
That's just mean.
@Deo
That would actually be hilarious.
"Hello, who are you?"
*stab*stab*stab*
http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/5377/lookoutn.jpg
It's Jason with a kunai for some reason.
http://i625.photobucket.com/albums/tt333/SluttyMcNugget/BRAILLE.png
It looks like the kid is ready to die.
@Evan
oh god, win
I love seeing products like this.
LOL
Saw that kid at the mall yesterday playing the PS3 at Gamestop.
Did he have the same facial expression?
Ever since I was a young boy,
I hung out at GS in the mall.
From Soho down to Brighton
I must have seen them all.
but I ain't seen nothing like him
In any suburban mall.
That deaf, dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean pin ball!
he's a Playstation wizard
There has to be a twist.
A Playstation wizard,
S'got such a supple wrist
....
Why do they always put the Californian OC kid (not Outta Control OC but Cali O.C.) with surfer hairstyles to model for products??? Kid looks like a total douche. It'd would have been funnier if they put an Asian kid in his place, not that's uncalled for comedy.
-Jim Rome
Because everybody wants an Orange County kid.
Sorry to say.
it ain't his fault his hair's like that.. he doesn't know any better anyway.
he doesn't look like a douche, he looks cute :-)
why does engadget keep deleting what I try to post?
"Errrrrr!!!"
my bad, never mind.
Dude better open his eyes... I think Jason's in front of him...
Shouldn't he be wearing sunglasses?
Does it play Crysis?
blind people don't keep their eyes closed usually.....
he could be blinking
Blinking BOTH eyes at the same time? I think not.