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[2] The Robotron Rainbow and TR320 are reading machines for the blind. [3] In 1989, the company won the Australian Export Award. In 1990, the company was awarded the annual Canadian Winston Gordon Award of Excellence in Accessible Technology in the field of blindness and visual impairment for their Eureka A4 device. The award "recognizes an ...
With some practice, blind users were able to interpret this audio output as a meaningful message. However, the reading speed of this device was very slow (approximately one word per minute). [1] [2] From 1944 until up to the 1970s, new prototypes of reading machine were developed at Haskins Laboratories under contract from the Veterans ...
The transponder gets its altitude information from an encoding altimeter mounted behind the instrument panel that communicates via the Gillham code. Gillham code is a zero-padded 12-bit binary code using a parallel nine- [ 1 ] to eleven-wire interface , [ 2 ] the Gillham interface , that is used to transmit uncorrected barometric altitude ...
Epic! is an American kids subscription-based reading and learning platform. It offers access to books and videos for targeted at children ages 12 and under. [1] The service can be used on desktop and mobile devices. [2] Epic! was founded in 2013 by Suren Markosian and Kevin Donahue [3] and launched in 2014. [4]
Operation Neptune is an educational computer game produced in 1991 by The Learning Company.The goal of the game is to guide a small submarine through a variety of undersea caverns, collecting pieces of a ruined space capsule.
Interorbital Systems (IOS) is an American space development company based in Mojave, California. [2] It was established in 1996 by Roderick and Randa Milliron. As of October 2023, the company is in development stage for three orbital launch vehicles: NEPTUNE, TRITON, and TRITON HEAVY.
Jason-3 is a satellite altimeter created by a partnership of the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) and National Aeronautic and Space Administration (), and is an international cooperative mission in which National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is partnering with the Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES, French space agency).
Milan Hudecek AM (pron. who-de-check, born 9 January 1954) is a Czech-born Australian inventor and entrepreneur.He pioneered the fields of assistive technology for the blind (in particular computing for the blind) and radio communications (in particular software-defined radios).