The future of Braille has more than one line
Now available: The Canute Scientific
Our latest product, the Canute Scientific, builds upon everything that came before it in the Canute 360 and the Canute Console.
See the Canute Scientific brochure. Buy a Canute Scientific or put down a deposit via our shop or contact us to discuss your goals and needs.
Maker-spaces and workshops for computer science and cyber security
Bristol Braille specialises in equipment and support that enables maker-spaces, labs, companies and college departments to be fully accessible to blind people in the fields of computer science and cyber security.
We also increasingly run our own workshops, at our facilities in Bristol (Braille Space), at regional, national and international conferences and conventions, and with our academic partners at Bath Spa University.
Speak to the team to participate as a partner organisation, individual or sponsor.
Canute is the original multiline display
“Because of Canute I am reading for pleasure again”
Stephanie Sergeant – Vision Through Sound
First released in 2019, after 7 years of development, Canute is a family of products including an ebook reader, a docked display for programmers, and now a full STEM workstation. Every Canute display has nine lines, 360 cells, for a fraction the cost of alternative technologies.
Read literary Braille in whole paragraphs. Read tables and lists, not single items. Code by viewing the whole function. Read mathematical matrices and algebraic problems. Read both hands of sheet music on one page. Create bar charts and tactile diagrams.
In other words, read Braille as Louis intended it.
Stocks of Canute 360 and Canute Console are limited whilst we roll out the Canute Scientific, but all are available on pre-order on our shop.
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“Reading the Canute is way more fun than going to gym lessons!”
— Aliyah, Primary school pupil, Wolverhampton
“I don’t want to gloat, but I really love the Canute 360 […] I put a whole load of BRF files on a card last week to read […] It has so much potential!”
>— Canute customer on the Braillists forum
“The time, energy, and devotion you have put into this machine is absolutely clear. Thanks so very much! It’s wonderful! It has allowed me to have a library without literally thousands of volumes.”
— Canute customer
“Good for musicians, maths, programmers, reading and literacy. Reading music Braille is amazing, as is tabular information. I must say, reading several lines of Braille without having to advance to the next line is fantastic. It’s the first time I’ve read a novel in Braille for a long time, as I got sick and tired of having to push next every single blasted line.”
“Braille literacy is an important ingredient in maximising the employment prospects of blind people. As a blind parent, I cannot imagine any other way to make notes in meetings or read bedtime stories to my son. Existing electronic braille technology typically show a single line at a time meaning that it is more challenging for a blind child to study poetry, music or computer code. Canute is the first working example of multiline braille eReader that also promises to radically reduce the cost of electronic braille.”
— Dave Williams, Chairman of the Braillists, Radio 4 Presenter, RNIB