Two Braille PDAs

Still no Audioblogger. Meanwhile the Engadget Web log reports on two PDAs for blind people. Some details:

Two PDAs for the blind in two days. VisuAide’s Maestro is actually an HP iPAQ h4150 Pocket PC that’s been tricked out with text-to-speech and a special tactile keyboard that sits on top of its touchscreen. No braille matrix like the BrailleNote PK, but it obviously has all of the features that the h4150, like built-in Bluetooth and WiFi, and you can connect a braille keyboard to it.

And an earlier post on a PDA for the blind:

There’s a new PDA for the blind from Pulse Data International. The BrailleNote PK doesn’t have an LCD screen (obviously), but they’re claiming it’s the world’s smallest PDA with a Braille display (which has a matrix of dots that can be raised or lowered depending on what information needs to be displayed), and it does feature a built-in speech synthesizer, built-in Bluetooth, 16MB of RAM, an Ethernet port, a CompactFlash expansion card slot, and run on Windows CE.

Good news. Now if only Audiblogger comes back soon. Keep checking.

--Written and posted by David H. Rothman