Images are drawn or photocopied onto 'swell' paper. The paper is then passed through piaf which raises the image. Nomad Mentor Nomad Mentor is a system that blind people can use to 'read' tactile maps and diagrams and have information spoken out aloud when the map is pressed at the appropriate points. The system consists of a touch sensitive pad that has a built-in speech synthesiser and can be programmed using any IBM compatible computer. The software is loaded onto the computer and information about a graphic is entered and stored in a named file.
Nomad is a high resolution touch sensitive pad.
There are 9600 individual points on Nomad Mentor's surface that can be labelled with speech. Picture Braille Software Self-contained package comprising software, a computer mouse and a hand held scanner. Can be run on either a desk top or lap top computer and it will run with most commercially available embossers, including the Mountbatten Brailler, Versapoint and Index embossers. An image can be drawn either free hand on the screen, using the simple drawing program supplied, or scanned from a page such as a text book or magazine. Once the image is created, Picture Braille will convert it to a braille file.