Flying Blind; running on empty
Funding freeze challenges startup's mission to market innovative device for
the blind 
From: Mountain View Voice - April 26, 2002 - page 23
By: Danek S. Kaus

Starting and running a new business is hard; it's even tougher when you're
blind. Kenneth Frasse, president and CEO of Mountain View based Flying Blind
Technologies, Inc., is blind. So is Vice President of Engineering, Dean
Hudson. 

Frasse hopes to dramatically change the employment situation with a new
device called the Electronic Scribe, which acts as pen and paper for the
blind, and much more. It is a cross between a PDA and a laptop, but is
smaller than a laptop. It contains a full-power word processor, address book,
browser and e-mail application, using speech for its output. Unlike other
software and hardware for the blind, all of the applications are completely
accessible. The user needs to know only five keystrokes to access any
function. 

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