BrailleNote

A BrailleNote is a type of computer made by HumanWare, a company formerly known as Pulse Data. Pulse Data invented the Keynote in 1986, an early device like the BrailleNote. In 2000, they finally invented the BrailleNote, a PDA-like device for the blind. It had a refreshable Braille display and speech output. Over the next five years, they made minor software and hardware changes. In 2005, they made the BrailleNote mPower, which had USB ports and Bluetooth. The mPower came in BT (Braille keyboard) or QT (QWERTY-style keyboard). It was much faster than the original. Since then, they have made the PK (a small BrailleNote) and, very recently, the Apex (small BrailleNote with advanced features).

Features

The BrailleNote runs on Windows CE 4.20. As soon as Windows boots up, its internal base program, KeySoft, opens. KeySoft contains a word processor, scheduler, email program, web browser, audio file player, calculator and much more. There are always minor changes to KeySoft. BrailleNotes can connect to a PC on Windows and share files via ActiveSync, or share appointments and address-lists with KeySync. Almost all of KeySoft's programs have "Key" names; the word-processor is KeyWord, the calculator is KeyPlus, the address book and address database system is KeyList, etc.

External links

The website for HumanWare, the company that makes the BrailleNote. BrailleNote Users site, a website run by users of the BrailleNote, not the company.