New Linux PDA For Blind People

[Travis Siegel]

Being able to add programs to the unit as desired is a *big* sale for  
me.  I'd have bought the humanware device if they'd had let me do  
that when it first came out.  FS had a nice unit, and although you  
could force it to allow you to run your own stuff, it wasn't  
supported, and even actively discouraged by fs.  But, since I'll  
never buy an fs product if it can be avoided, that's not a problem  
for me.  The visuaide unit would have been perfect if they had  
included the palm reader app inside it, (or given out the specs so  
someone else could do it) but they didn't, and so I can't use that  
one either.
It's a wonder how many blind friendly devices won't allow you to do  
what you want to do with them.  Why would I buy a unit I can't do  
what I want to do with it? I thought that's the whole point of buying  
a unit.
On Mar 29, 2006, at 3:46 PM, Janina Sajka wrote:

> No pricing information yet, though I believe it's going to be very
> competitive with existing devices.
>
> hank smith writes:
>> wonder what the price tag is on this one?
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>> Subject: New Linux PDA For Blind People
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>>> 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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> Janina Sajka				Phone: +1.240.715.1272
> Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC	http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com
>
> Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S.  
> and Canada--Go to http://www.ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more.
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> Chair, Accessibility Workgroup		Free Standards Group (FSG)
> janina at freestandards.org		http://a11y.org
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