OK. Next problem! <grin> Full page braille displays have long been a kind of holy grail that we dream of and can't attain. As things stand, a single line display is horrendously expensive. We need a breakthrough. We need two breakthroughs, actually: 1.) Price. Anything we know today says this would go through the ceiling--tens of thousands of dollars, at least; 2.) Complexity. I don't know that we understand how to build anything this complicated and keep it controlled. Current single line displays are already very complicated, mechanically--which is why they're so expensive. My conclusion: Were we to make breakthroughs on the above two points we'd want a full page braille display before this kind of unit. -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org
