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

[Steve Holmes]

Oh, and while we're at it, I want it to have a little cup hole on the
corner for my scotch on the rocks so I can drink and fly while I'm
surfing!

On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 03:39:37PM -0500, Amanda Lee wrote:
> 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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