New Linux PDA For Blind People

[Darragh]

Just to note that I had the oppertunity of taking a good look at this during CSun and I was very impressed. Marco is a great programmer and it really shows in some of his latest developments such as this and previously Orca.

I'd encourage you all to take a look.
-----Original message-----
From: Janina Sajka janina at rednote.net
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:36:49 +0100
To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
Subject: New Linux PDA For Blind People

> A radically new concept in adapted PDA technology was shown in prototype
> during CSUN. Designed from the ground up to serve users who are blind or
> visually impaired, the hand-held Icon from Levelstar (a new company in
> AT) provides a 20 Gb hard drive, Firefox, email, integrated Book Share
> access,calendar, address book, one touch audio recording, and a music
> player. When docked a full size keyboard facilitates word processing
> tasks. The hand-held device includes WiFi, GSM telephone, GPS, and
> BlueTooth.
> 
> There are two podcasts demonstrating this device at:
> 
> http://blindcooltech.xplorations.net/bct481BreakfastWithMarc.mp3
> http://blindcooltech.xplorations.net/bct482IconDemo.mp3
> 
> 
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