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... the electronic braille reader industry for the blind. This is a multi-billion a year industry that has stagnated and seen no innovation or development in 30 years.

Yesterday I had run into a discussion about blind programmers, and what technology they use. Rather than using TTS I think I would (were I blind, I'm not) use a braille terminal instead. Out of curiosity (or perhaps procrastination), I starting looking around at those, and they didn't seem much advanced, and very expensive.

I was thinking that instead of having the the braille "display" below the keyboard, I'd really rather have a small wireless version that I can pop in my mouth and read with my tongue. That way I could still touch-type on a regular keyboard. I think that would make me much more productive than constantly having to move my hands back and forth. Maybe use Bluetooth with Serial Port Profile, and then it would be easy to connect it to phones and PCs.