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In Braille without barriers
Francesco Benincasa
With the communications device of the German Braillino Handytec you can use any machine, be it a phone or a PC, to communicate via radio waves through the Braille Bluetooth
When we talk about barriers in the world of disability, most people go with the thought directly to architectural ones, imagining endless flights of stairs or sidewalks impassable, while the concept has evolved over time to include within it all possible variants as well as physical, sensory by up to environmental or relational.
Modernity, with its relentless technological development, also contributes to make the process of overcoming the handicap, in our country began with the first battles for the recognition of the dignity of persons with disabilities to have equal rights and duties, continuing with the aim of seeing a free and guaranteed to everyone, as far as possible, not tainted by discrimination.
Difficulties which meets every day a person with visual impairment, for example, especially as may relate to the conduct of activities independently without the need to do that through the eyes of others, ranging from the most trivial movements in space, how to take a bus or cross a cul-run dangers, to withdraw cash from an ATM, respond to an email or a message on the phone.
The Braille - developed in France in the early nineteenth century - has enabled a quantum leap in communications and education for all blind people consists of different combinations of up to six points that correspond to the letters of ' alphabet, numbers and other special characters.
After two centuries of the revolutionary invention, the same script may be used to communicate via radio waves, thanks to today's Bluetooth technology which, supported by a communications device which is the German Braillino Handytec allows the use of any machine, be it a cell phone or a computer.
The advantage is immediately obvious: the ability to interface with a computer that is not his own, sending and receiving information via Bluetooth through the bar-made braille, provides access to information anywhere, even if not equipped for the blind , for example, speech synthesis systems. The technology opens the way for all scenarios in which even people with low vision or vision completely private individual may vote in elections, not to trust their vote to anyone else, or in the near future to shop shelves due to cyber Browse Products media of this type, as well as to exchange any type of file.
History is always made of small steps. In this case, technological progress has helped to eliminate the wire connection that could metaphorically "tripped over" someone, allowing even those with a lack of vision and the technology and enjoy a few bricks to remove the barriers of this world.
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Welcome to Handy Tech !
Handy Tech Elektronik GmbH is your specialist for technology for the blind and visually impaired.
Our mission is to create innovative technologies which help to improve the lives of the blind and the visually impaired.
We develop, produce and distribute products that reveal new horizons to the blind and visually impaired.
Our main products are Braille output units that convert information on the screen into tactile braille writing. With these so-called Braille displays , people have access to the world of computers.
Professional workplaces are equipped with our Braille systems Modular Evolution with ATC technology or Braille Star 80 . Our Braille display Braille Star 40 is especially designed for the mobile use with a laptop computer. Both the Braille Star and the ultra compact Braille Wave can alternatively be used as a notetaker or in combination with a laptop. The Braille Notetaker Braillino becomes a complete PDA in combination with the Nokia Communicator
Moreover, you can find small, portable devices such as our Bookworm , the world's first electronic booklet with Braille output. Furthermore, we have introduced the world's first graphic display for the blind, the Graphic Window Professional (GWP) .
Our product range includes products with speech output such as our reading systems Sophie and Sophie Pro as well as CCTV systems [camera reading systems].
We offer the complete equipment for workspaces for the blind and the visually impaired including installation and training on-site.
Feel free to contact our custumer consultants in our head office in Horb near Sttutgart , as well as in our branch offices and distributors in Cologne , Marburg , Stuttgart , Berlin, Hamburg, Hannover and Straubing or contact Our international distributors.
Handy Tech Elektronik GmbH is your specialist for technology for the blind and visually impaired.
Our mission is to create innovative technologies which help to improve the lives of the blind and the visually impaired.
We develop, produce and distribute products that reveal new horizons to the blind and visually impaired.
Our main products are Braille output units that convert information on the screen into tactile braille writing. With these so-called Braille displays , people have access to the world of computers.
Professional workplaces are equipped with our Braille systems Modular Evolution with ATC technology or Braille Star 80 . Our Braille display Braille Star 40 is especially designed for the mobile use with a laptop computer. Both the Braille Star and the ultra compact Braille Wave can alternatively be used as a notetaker or in combination with a laptop. The Braille Notetaker Braillino becomes a complete PDA in combination with the Nokia Communicator
Moreover, you can find small, portable devices such as our Bookworm , the world's first electronic booklet with Braille output. Furthermore, we have introduced the world's first graphic display for the blind, the Graphic Window Professional (GWP) .
Our product range includes products with speech output such as our reading systems Sophie and Sophie Pro as well as CCTV systems [camera reading systems].
We offer the complete equipment for workspaces for the blind and the visually impaired including installation and training on-site.
Feel free to contact our custumer consultants in our head office in Horb near Sttutgart , as well as in our branch offices and distributors in Cologne , Marburg , Stuttgart , Berlin, Hamburg, Hannover and Straubing or contact Our international distributors.
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Technology
Over the past decades have been invented several tools that allow blind and visually impaired perform activities that were not previously within their reach or, if they were, required a special effort and ability. Let's go through the most significant.
Of all the technological innovations the most significant is undoubtedly the computer, which we will devote a special section.
premise that, when it comes to specialty shops, we are referring to companies that sell only or mainly realizate products to meet the specific needs of the blind: A list of these shops to instill this page. The fact remains that there are products commonly available for their particular characteristics is valuable for the visually impaired.
- watches, thermometers and household items
- Writing instruments
- Tools to read
- Notepad computers and digital recorders
- The computer: a fac totum
- Computer Special
- Appliances adapted
- phones, mobile phones and other products commonly available
- List of stores
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