OK, so the doc is simply the term for the type of input/output one wishes to have; be it Braille or qwerty. Thanks for clarifying this. I definitely like this product and may consider it as a replacement for my Braille Lite Mehellium when I go off to college. At 12:07 PM 4/1/2006, you wrote: >Actually, when you carry the Icon and a dock, the Icon will fit all the >way inside the dock, so that you really do just carry one device. And >the dock is intended to be no bigger than the note-taking devices >that people generally use today. True that the braille dock won't be >available right away, though. > >PS: I'm personally looking at the Icon plus dock as a laptop >replacement. Time will tell if that works out, but I consider the >chances very good indeed. > >The key design idea is that you should only have one device to carry. >That was considered an essential design criterion, which is why the Icon >itself slides 100% into whatever dock you end up using, qwerty, braille, >or some other possibilities. > >Janina > >ace writes: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > LOL thanks. I guess I should have been a bit more exact in the wording > > of that previous message. At the time, I was asking how input was done > > and such but I now understand since I listened to the two demos on the > > Blind Cool Tech. This device sounds very nice. The only thing that I > > don't care for is that I will have to carry around a keyboard and a > > Braille display; at least, this is how I am understanding it. Right > > now, I am in high school and while I don't care much for the Braille > > Lite Millenium that I am stuck using, I do like the fact that everything > > is in one unit. > > > > Robby > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
