Harpo Products

Harpo develops and manufactures equipment for visually impaired people.

Our range of assistive devices is a family. Each member works in concert with all the others, to provide you with flexible, useful ways to work, study, enjoy life and keep in touch with the wider world. Each device has its own website - let us tell you a little bit about them, and then you can use the links on this page to find out more.

Mountbatten Brailler

www.mountbattenbrailler.com

Mountbatten is the tool for Braille learning - with speech and a friendly, light-touch ergonomic keyboard, it gives instant response so that a Braille student of any age has positive feedback to reinforce their learning. Mountbatten encourages independent and experiential learning, while providing a platform for real classroom integration. Follow the link to the Mountbatten Brailler website to find out more about this amazing device.

Auto-Lektor Independent Reader

www.auto-lektor.com

With Auto-Lektor, you can read as simply as you want; or you can access all the diverse, distributed sources of news and information, and once you've found the information, you can keep what you want and leave the rest. Read a text and email it to yourself or someone else. Subscribe to streaming radio on the internet. Read news. Read weblogs. Get access to information easily - and keep your computer for the other tasks, or don't use a computer at all.

BraillePen and BraillePen12

www.braillepen.com

Connect to your phone, netbook, PC or PDA; Write SMS, do 6-key entry into your favourite Braille translator, or simply type. Superbly portable, with easy action and enviable battery life, BraillePen gives you simple keyboard access to computers and portable devices alike. If your device has onboard Bluetooth and uses a standard access package, we probably have a BraillePen driver for you. As well a having pleasing portable Braille keyboard, with the same device you can read the output from your phone, PC, netbook or PDA. BraillePen12 does everything BraillePen does - plus refreshable Braille output.

Piaf Tactile Image Maker

www.piaf-tactile.com

Piaf produces high quality tactile graphics using heat sensitive capsule paper, ideal for people who are blind and vision impaired. Piaf's controlled heat source causes any black lines, letters or shapes that are drawn, printed or copied onto the capsule paper to swell. The result is an instant tactile graphic. Piaf is being used in a variety of educational, employment and personal settings.