Larry Lewis, President of Flying Blind LLC, will showcase the entire
line of wireless Braille displays manufactured by Baum Retek, a European-based manufacturer
with decades of experience developing products for persons who are vision impaired.
The virtual audience will be taken on a tour of the hardware of these displays and
will hear a demonstration of methods for efficiently using these displays to wirelessly
access a PC as well as Mobilespeak-equipped PDAs and Smartphones.
Additionally, Lewis will discuss how these displays have complimented his abilities
With the increased interest in accessing computers with Braille displays, we have
invited Larry Lewis, President of Flying Blind LLC, to demonstrate the functionality
and practical uses of Optelec's recently released Alva Braille Controller 640.
Since Optelec began shipping this 6th generation of Alva Braille displays within
the United States in June 2008, customers have been experiencing the feature-rich
functionality present within this state-of-the-art, wireless Braille solution.
Lewis, who has extensive experience both using and representing a wide array of wireless
This week’s Tek Talk features Larry Lewis, President, Flying Blind LLC. He will be unveiling Mobilespeak Version 4, Code Factory’s globally acclaimed screen reading solution for hundreds of Mobile Phones. Larry will be discussing the newly implemented features of MS 4 including improved text to speech, enhanced Braille support, and the adoption of “gesture” commands for devices with touch screens. He also will describe the innovative solution for transferring Mobilespeak licenses among mobile technologies.
In this seminar, Larry Lewis, President of Flying Blind LLC will be discussing non-visual
strategies for self-defense techniques that can be used by persons who are blind/visually
impaired. Lewis has studied a few different martial arts but has found his passion
in training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, a grappling-based Martial Art with a highly affective
self-defense component that requires no vision to learn and utilize.
Lewis will be discussing the components of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu as well as the pluses
of training in this amazing martial art as well as offering strategies for avoiding