New Linux PDA For Blind People

[Igor Gueths]

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Wonder if one will be able to loadkeys Dvorak on that? Would be interesting if one was presented the possibility.
On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 04:02:45PM -0500, ace wrote:
> OK, so the doc is simply the term for the type of input/output one 
> wishes to have; be it Braille or qwerty.  Thanks for clarifying 
> this.  I definitely like this product and may consider it as a 
> replacement for my Braille Lite Mehellium when I go off to college.
> 
> At 12:07 PM 4/1/2006, you wrote:
> >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
> >
> >ace writes:
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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
> >
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