iPads rock! I have the 3 and I hardly use my win7 laptop now. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of shaun everiss Sent: 07 August 2012 13:10 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] N A Soft is back and I'm looking for sometesterswith Braille displays.
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. >> >>--- >>Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] >>If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >>[email protected]. >>You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >>http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >>All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >>http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. >>If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, >>please send E-mail to [email protected]. >> >> >>----- >>No virus found in this message. >>Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >>Version: 10.0.1424 / Virus Database: 2437/5181 - Release Date: 08/06/12 > > >--- >Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] >If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. >You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. >If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, >please send E-mail to [email protected]. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. 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