assault_freak wrote:Still waiting for a budget display that has over 20 cells. I want a bigger display right now as opposed to the braille sense onhand at 18 cells.
http://blitab.com
I don't know if the Blitab will actually come out this June/July, but I don't know if the Or20 will, either.
Blitab claims to be atablet-sized display for approximately the same price-range as the OR20, via the Microfluidics type of actuation. I've only heard anyone say anything about it, like, once or twice on Twitter. I don't know if it's supposed to be screen reader compatible, so I must assume it is not, since screen readers expect single-line displays.
I also notice that the description makes it sound like a dual-screen device, where the braille part and a touch-screen are both incorporated. I imagine touch-sensitivity in a screen made of what amounts to bubble-wrap is a harder engineering problem than touch-sensitivity with traditional braille displays. It's just kinda annoying that the one device for which touch-sensitivity makes the most sense goes all DS on us.
But I notice that it's still mostly unknown, in spite of their claim of over 3000 satisfied testers. And that website looks like it's marketed toward, like, parents or new TVIs. I tried looking for other hints that it might be a hoax, and didn't find anything other than someone mentioning a lack of a response to their communications (which iirc began as requesting to be a tester).
At this point, I'm not counting on anything innovative to ever go public, never mind affordable. All hail the all-mighty market -_-.
看過來!
"If you want utopia but reality gives you Lovecraft, you don't give up, you carve your utopia out of the corpses of dead gods."
MaxAngor wrote:
George... Don't do that.