The bone conduction headphones made by aftershokz have many applications where one must still have virtually unobstructed hearing: cyclists, joggers, folks who are blind or visually impaired using audio devices for anynumber of reasons, or people who simply want to listen to music privately yet still be able to hear what is happening around them. I would most certainly not recommend these for the average audiophile. Perhaps I'm the wrong kind of bonehead since, regardless…
Hardware & Accessory Reviews
The Focus 14 is a very portable display, about the size of a Braille Pen, but it sports 2 more cells than the Pen, along with a slightly higher price tag than the Braille Pen, but that won't be the case for long.
Instead of wizwheels, you have a rocker button located at each end of the display that you can press up to move up or down to move down.
Above these scrol buttons you have a button that allows you to control the type of element the scrol buttons move by such as…
The Perkins mini is a 16 cell display that works with Windows screen readers and mac OSX 10.7 and later. It's also compatible with iOS from 6.0 on. It has both USB and bluetooth capabilities, and also has very similar functions to the Braille Edge. It can take notes, read books, has a calendar, a calculator and supports the reading of brf and txt files. That's where the similarities end though.
The Perkins Mini has a braille keyboard, that, in my opinion is not comfortable to type…
If you're looking for a durable case for your iPhone 4 or 4S which would also keep the screen shielded even at the time of use, look nowhere else. The Griffin Survivor Case for iPhone 4 and 4S provides the best type of device protection without sacrificing usability. As one Amazon reviewer says:
Not completely waterproof, definitely water resistant. The iPhone sits inside a virtually fully enclosed plastic…The Handy Tech Braille Star 40 is a portable, rechargeable 40 cell braille display with serial, USB and Bluetooth connectivity. Its physical dimensions are 331 x 227 x 24 mm (width x depth x height). The tactile surface of the Braille elements are concavely shaped. Each cell has exactly one cursor routing key located above. Below the cells you find 8 braille dot keys separated by two space keys. To the left and right of the reading area are the so-called tripple…
As advertised on the web, the Apple TV comes with VoiceOver. Enabling VoiceOver on the Apple TV without sighted assistance is easy: Connect the device via HDMI to your TV or AV-Receiver. Make sure the appropriate port is choosen on your TV or AV-Receiver so that you can hear audio coming from it once its booted. Then connect the power to the Apple TV and wait for it to boot.
Once its finished it will announce to you that you are supposed to press the lower right button…