FW: USA: Online book-sharing service for the blind borrows a page from Napster

[Amanda Lee]

Yes and I want one which opens like a braille  book which isn't heavy nor
too rigid that I can hold on my lap with perhaps a cable plugged into my
Notebook which is in its' airlines compliant case at my feet under the
seat in front of me.  Actually, forget the fargin' cable, it shall be
wireless and shall receive the signal from my notebook to deliver the
goods which make me my page of braille so that I can sit comfortably in a
seat anywhere and read to my lil' heart's desire!

LOL! LOL! some more!

I still do want this you know!

Amanda Lee



On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:

> OK. Next problem! <grin>
>
> Full page braille displays have long been a kind of holy grail that we
> dream of and can't attain. As things stand, a single line display is
> horrendously expensive.
>
> We need a breakthrough. We need two breakthroughs, actually:
>
> 1.)	Price. Anything we know today says this would go through the
> ceiling--tens of thousands of dollars, at least;
>
> 2.)	Complexity. I don't know that we understand how to build anything
> this complicated and keep it controlled. Current single line displays are
> already very complicated, mechanically--which is why they're so expensive.
>
> My conclusion: Were we to make breakthroughs on the above two points we'd
> want a full page braille display before this kind of unit.
>
>
> --
>
> 				Janina Sajka, Director
> 				Technology Research and Development
> 				Governmental Relations Group
> 				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
>
> Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175
>
> Chair, Accessibility SIG
> Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
> http://www.openebook.org
>
>
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