Education and Technology

Monday, August 6, 2012

Orion 18 Braille Tablet - powered by Android


Orion's 18 Braille Tablet created by LevelStar, and developed in partnership with American Printing House for the Blind, has a 18 cell Braille display with router keys, and natural Ivona text-to-speech. This Braille tablet is the world's first notetaker for the blind powered by Android. Orion's 18 Braille Tablet has the following features: braille notetaker, access email, camera, ( which allows the user to take a photo of a printed page, and then convert the image to text) GPS, wi-fi, digital compass, 3G, 32 GB of internal memory, SD card slot, full size USB port, accelorometer, built-in stereo speakers, connected headphones, or a wireless Bluetooth headset.
The tablet comes with a home screen to make it easier to navigate around the system. It has a book reader that supports some of the specialized eBooks formats and a word processor tht can handle Braille documents. The tablet is also equipped with Adobe to bring DRM-protected eBooks to the device.