<[email protected]> writes: > For the past 40 years, there has been new a miracle technology which will > bring us cheap multi-line braille displays announced every 6 months. Each > time a technology is announced, the inventor is interviewed in the news > paper (page A4, bellow the fold) and subsequently anointed as a saint > (figuratively of course). After the single news article, the inventor > disappears from the face of the earth. Did you read about the latest one? > Some Chinese design student "invented" a braille camera. Won some sort of > award for drawing a picture of a camera with dots on the back. Absolutely no > mention about how those dots are going to move. News media went crazy about > "how it's wonderful how modern technology is opening up the world for the > blind". But you're still reading this on a clunky old (clunky new) piezo > display, aren't you? Has "modern technology" really progressed so much in > the past 40 years?
I know these stories, and I know about many failed attempts to replace piezzo. I hope your project is going to be different, but from experience (which you list above), I am not very convinced :-) BTW, another issue that many alternative systems have is latency. As a potential user, noise and latency are my biggest concerns. -- CYa, ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕ | Debian Developer <URL:http://debian.org/> .''`. | Get my public key via finger mlang/[email protected] : :' : | 1024D/7FC1A0854909BCCDBE6C102DDFFC022A6B113E44 `. `' `- <URL:http://delysid.org/> <URL:http://www.staff.tugraz.at/mlang/> _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
