Canute 360 from Bristol Braille Technology, an electronic Braille e-book reader that has been compared to a Kindle for blind people, has been awarded a £5K runners up grant in the 2018 NESTA inventors prize, awarded in conjunction with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial strategy, for the best new product which uses technology to tackle a social issue.
Electronic Braille displays currently on the market can show only a single line of text at a time. Canute 360, the world’s first multi-line Braille e-reader can show nine lines of Braille, each comprised of 40 characters, to form a 360-character display.