HumanWare launches KeyMaestro, the Wireless Braille Keyboard for the Maestro PDA
Longueuil, January 19, 2006 -- HumanWare is pleased to announce the release of KeyMaestro, a portable Braille Bluetooth keyboard, offering enhanced notetaking capability to the Maestro PDA. Now users can input data quickly and conveniently in computer Braille or Grade 2 anytime, anywhere.
The HumanWare light and highly portable Braille keyboard uses Bluetooth technology, allowing users to communicate with the Maestro PDA without the hassle of cumbersome wires and adapters.
Maestro, the first mainstream pocket computer accessible to the blind and visually impaired, allows to manage appointments and contacts, take text notes with a standard or Braille keyboard, record voice memos, consult and edit documents, read books, manage your e-mails, listen to music, and more, all in the palm of the hand.
KeyMaestro is a full Perkins-type keyboard. The user can input data in Braille, quickly access favourite applications, enter commands with special function keys and enjoy the convenience of compact portability. KeyMaestro can be used alternatively with the tactile keyboard of PDA without quitting the active Maestro (or Trekker) application.
The KeyMaestro keyboard has an improved power management. The keyboard has a power on/off key, battery autonomy of 100 hours of continuous use and a power-saving auto-sleep mode. Visually impaired users can also know the battery status via audio feedback.
The Bluetooth Manager of the Maestro platform has been finely tuned to provide users with a robust, easy-to-connect interface. Once the keyboard has been enabled, Maestro will automatically communicate each time you want to use it, as soon as the Maestro and KeyMaestro have been turned on.
KeyMaestro comes with a carrying case and four AAA batteries and is available now from HumanWare and its distributors.
About HumanWare
HumanWare designs and manufactures innovative technology for people who are blind and visually impaired. Products like the SmartView video magnifier and more recently myReader—the world's first low vision auto-reader— are redefining the way people look at low vision while the Victor Reader family of Digital Talking Book players has been at the forefront of the industry since its inception. The BrailleNote is the best-known solution in the notetaker market today, and is complemented by the Maestro handheld notetaker for the blind. HumanWare also produces the world's only commercialized GPS-based orientation solutions for the blind—Trekker and BrailleNote GPS.
For more information contact:
Nicolas Lagacé
HumanWare Canada
Phone: (450) 463-1717 poste 341
E-mail: nicolas.lagace@humanware.com
Web: www.humanware.ca