New Linux PDA For Blind People

[Janina Sajka]

Actually, when you carry the Icon and a dock, the Icon will fit all the
way inside the dock, so that you really do just carry one device. And
the dock is intended to be no bigger than the note-taking devices
that people generally use today. True that the braille dock won't be
available right away, though.

PS: I'm personally looking at the Icon plus dock as a laptop
replacement. Time will tell if that works out, but I consider the
chances very good indeed.

The key design idea is that you should only have one device to carry.
That was considered an essential design criterion, which is why the Icon
itself slides 100% into whatever dock you end up using, qwerty, braille,
or some other possibilities.

Janina

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> LOL thanks.  I guess I should have been a bit more exact in the wording
> of that previous message.  At the time, I was asking how input was done
> and such but I now understand since I listened to the two demos on the
> Blind Cool Tech.  This device sounds very nice.  The only thing that I
> don't care for is that I will have to carry around a keyboard and a
> Braille display; at least, this is how I am understanding it.  Right
> now, I am in high school and while I don't care much for the Braille
> Lite Millenium that I am stuck using, I do like the fact that everything
> is in one unit.
> 
> Robby