Braille e-book

In 2011 David S. Morgan produced the first SMART Brailler machine, with added text to speech function and allowed digital capture of data entered.

In 1960, Robert Mann, a teacher at MIT, wrote DOTSYS, a software that allowed automatic braille translation, and another group created an embossing device called "M.I.T.

The Mitre Corporation team of Robert Gildea, Jonathan Millen, Reid Gerhart and Joseph Sullivan (now president of Duxbury Systems) developed DOTSYS III, the first braille translator written in a portable programming language.

As of February 2019[update] the company was inviting people to sign up as a "tester", with the explanation, "Become one of the first to touch and feel the future of large scale tactile Braille displays.

"[9] In 2018, the German company Metec introduced the Braille E-Book, which, unlike its predecessors, has a field size of 120 x 97 mm, which can accommodate eight lines of 16 characters each.