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Allison Hilliker and Darrell Shandrow talk with Ryan Jones all about Freedom Scientific’s soon-to-be-released Focus 14 Blue Braille display.

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Index Braille CEO Björn Löfstedt told me all about the refresh of the company’s popular Basic and Everest Braille embossers. The updated features in the new hardware include front-panel status LEDs, multi-lingual speech for the user interface, network printing and USB connectivity.

Download, Play or Pause – Index Basic and Everest Modernized

I spoke with Jason Castaneda from American Thermoform Corporation, who discussed and demonstrated the Braille and Print embosser and the Swell-Form tactile graphics machine.

Download, Play or Pause – Braille and Print and Tactile Graphics

Just in case you’re thinking there’s nothing new and innovative in the field of hardcopy Braille production, Index Braille is here to turn heads with the new 800-pages-per-hour Braille Box! I spoke with Björn Löfstedt, Index Braille’s CEO, about this fast, quiet $13,000 Braille embosser that should find a home in many Braille production houses around the world.

Download, Play or Pause – Braille Box