Orbit Slate 340 – Multi-line Refreshable Braille Display

The Orbit Reader 20 Plus is the world’s most affordable Refreshable Braille Display.  It is a unique 3-in-1 device and serves as a self-contained book reader, a note-taker and as a braille display by connecting to a computer or smartphone via USB or Bluetooth.

Equipped with a 20-cell 8-dot display, the Orbit Reader 20 Plus is based on revolutionary braille cell technology developed by Orbit Research.  The breakthrough technology uses mainstream components and manufacturing processes to enable unique signage-quality refreshable braille at a fraction of the cost of the piezoelectric technology that has been used in braille cells so far.

A compact 40 cell braille display designed for smooth, comfortable braille reading

The Orbit Flow 40 is a compact 40 cell braille display designed for computer and smartphone users who want a smooth and natural braille reading experience. Featuring high quality piezo braille cells, ergonomic navigation controls, and instant connectivity, it provides reliable braille access for work, study, and everyday reading.

Flow 40 is designed for seamless use with computers and mobile devices. With instant USB plug and play operation, it works immediately with popular screen readers on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Chrome OS, and Linux, allowing users to access documents, websites, email, and applications through braille.

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The display features 40 piezo braille cells with cursor routing keys, allowing precise navigation and direct interaction with text on the screen. Ergonomic thumb keys for panning provide natural and comfortable braille reading, while additional configurable keys allow users to control screen reader commands efficiently.  

The Orbit Reader Q40 is a groundbreaking addition to Orbit Research’s line of braille products. It is an all-in-one braille device that couples a multi-function refreshable braille display with a QWERTY keyboard for input. The device is designed to enhance accessibility, convenience, and independence for individuals who are blind.

The Orbit Reader Q40 offers Orbit’s unparalleled signage-quality TrueBraille™ technology with 40 eight-dot refreshable braille cells. It is designed for seamless standalone or connected use with computers and mobile devices. The device enables users to read books, take notes, and manage daily tasks with built-in applications for productivity such as a clock, calendar, calculator and braille translator.

The full-sized, high-quality, laptop-style QWERTY keyboard can be independently connected via Bluetooth or USB to a computer or mobile device and allows users the convenience of touch-typing while using braille for reading.

When used as a standalone reader, the Orbit Reader Q40 enables the user to read any file from the SD card or a USB Flash drive.  These could be BRF and BRL formatted books, text files or files in any format.  The reader has features for easy navigation, inserting and editing bookmarks, browsing through folders, scrolling horizontally and vertically, etc.

The Orbit Slate is the first and only product in the world to provide multiple lines of true real-time refreshable braille in a single, compact, tablet-sized device. It enables people who are blind or visually impaired to seamlessly and intuitively experience spatially arranged text and information such as tables in real time. The Slate offers Orbit’s unique signage-quality TrueBraille™ cells in two configurations – a model with three rows of forty cells and one with five rows of twenty cells.

The interactive refreshable multi-line braille display provides students and professionals a vital tool for the exploration of spatial math problems involving fractions and mixed numbers, number line graphs, and matrices and makes solving multi-step equations at all levels of mathematics much easier. It enables braille readers to efficiently engage in tasks that were previously very laborious using single line displays, e.g. reading and writing braille music, manipulating spreadsheets and parsing tabular data in a way that has heretofore been impossible using refreshable braille technology.

The Orbit Slate offers all the features of the revolutionary Orbit Reader 20, including a book reader, editor and the ability to connect to a smartphone or computer via Bluetooth or USB and access all the features of these platforms using popular screen reader programs. It also includes features for productivity and convenience such as onboard translation to and from braille in over 40 languages, a clock with alarms, a calendar, and a calculator.

• Fully accessible handheld graphing calculator
• Offers a choice of speech rates, voices, etc.
• The high-quality synthesized speech reads out all textual and symbolic information
• Unique audio and haptic feedback for graphs