I recently started using APH's Braille Plus and Refreshabraille combination and think it's very very slick. The combo consists of the Braille Plus, which is a very nice PDA running on Linux, and the Refreshabraille 18 which is an 18-cell braille display with a standard braille input keyboard. The units are intended to be connected via Bluetooth, and they can be housed in a sort of binder which closes when they're not in use. Both the display and PDA can be used by themselves, for example, connecting the display to a PC or Laptop running a screen reader such as JAWS. If the Braille Plus is used as a stand alone, data can be imported either on a braille keyboard on the PDA, through a telephone keypad on the PDA using typical cell phone data entry, or using something called thumbs braille which appears to involve turning the unit 90 degrees. More later. Gotta go.
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