hmmm I may even concider buying this.
yes it costs about 1200 bucks for the ipad but that is as much as a
low to mid end laptop.
and if they put phone service in it to then that baby will probably be mine.
I'll still use a windows laptop but at least I won't have to rely on
it for everything.
At 07:55 a.m. 7/08/2012 -0400, you wrote:
Hi Dark,
What you describe, a plastic that changes shapes and forms braille
on its surface is a patent that Apple has filed for a few years ago.
Here is the article I posted:
Possible Apple tablet multi-touch tactile keyboard detailed
Thursday, December 24, 2009
By Neil Hughes
Published: 08:40 AM EST
Apple's forthcoming tablet could employ a dynamic surface that gives
users tactile feedback when typing in order to identify individual
keys, according to a new patent application revealed this week.
Using an "articulating frame," the surface of such a device would
create physical bumps or dots for the user to feel when it is in
keyboard mode. Those surface features would retract and disappear
when the device is not being used to type. It is detailed in an
application entitled "Keystroke Tactility Arrangement on a Smooth
Touch Surface." It is similar to an application first filed back in 2007.
"The articulating frame may provide key edge ridges that define the
boundaries of the key regions or may provide tactile feedback
mechanisms within the key regions," the application reads. "The
articulating frame may also be configured to cause concave
depressions similar to mechanical key caps in the surface."
The tactile feedback keyboard is revealed as one anonymous source
told The New York Times that users would be "surprised" how they
interact with the tablet.
Another example in the application describes a rigid,
non-articulating frame beneath the surface. It would provide higher
resistance when pressing away from the key centers, but softer
resistance at the center of a virtual key, guiding hands to the
proper location.
----- Original Message ----- From: "dark" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 6:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] N A Soft is back and I'm looking for
sometesterswith Braille displays.
Hi Tom.
Up until recently I would've fully agreed with you that despite
advances in computer technology, the instant access braille
provides for lables and other bits of information is absolutely
irriplaceable. However, the penfriend has largely for me replaced
the function braille used to perform, sinse all I need to do is
stick a sticker on something, touch the penfriend to it hit record
and speak, which is actually far easier than writing, cutting and
correctly sticking a braille lable on something, and in terms of
cost, the penfriend machine itself cost less than a brailler and
it's lables are less expensive. It also takes far less time and can
be done with a none braillist, indeed I paid my research assistant
for an hour's work and got my entire unlabled dvd and cd
collections done, ----
including all 7 seasons of star trek voyager and several rather
large box sets.
Undoubtedly, the penfriend labeling system isn't perfect. You can't
for instance avoid it speaking out the lable it reads, which would
make playing cards with it say pretty difficult, but I'm fairly
certain a version with headphones is just around the corner, also a
version with different levels of tactile labeling so that you could
mark squares on a board for basic layout and use the penfriend for
specific square reading.
of course, if braille technology can catch up, then this situation
might change. For instance, the current braille display designs of
about a line of text represented by motorized pins are pretty much
the same as they were when first developed in the mid nineties. A
few years ago however, I did discuss with several engineers of
specialist tech (it was at the Uk vi tech sexhibition site
village), the possibility of the developement of a plastic which
would tense when an electric current ran through it.
A sheet of this could be used with correct internal programming to
create an A 4 sized tactile display comparatively cheaply. under
those! circumstances, with large, relatively cheap displays able to
show an a full screen of infomation in tactile form i could see
braille very muh making a come back, sinse then any and all spacial
information woule equally available to a vi computer user, and in a
far more efficient method than with a screen reader.
Imagine playing chess on a computer with a real tactile board, or
better still, having a game like time of conflict where you could
run your hands over aa dynamic map overview and read the identity
of labled units as they moved around.
That sort of developement would be a total change, and not just in
games, sinse graphs, tables, pie charts, tree diagrams and other
forms of spacial representative data would be just as accessible to
a vlind user, which would have great applications for business,
science, and goodness knows what else.
Failing this sort of developement in technology though, I can see
braille being made completely obsolete in the next 20 years or so,
sinse with the rise of scanning and coding technology like the
penfriend, even it's essentially fast labeling functions will soon
be things which can be done far more easily via electronics.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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