Please note that Main Menu will be taking a break until 22 January 2003 after this week's show.

This week on Main Menu, Mike Calvo introduces us to a cellphone that is at last truly accessible. Send and receive text messages, configure the phone, and use the phone book with the help of Eloquence speech. The TalkX software is for the Nokia 9290, which is much more than just a cellphone, offering PDA functionality. (mm1212.mp3)

Optacon users will tell you that nothing substitutes for being able to feel the printed page. A German company has developed the Videotim, a device that brings the tactile presentation of the printed page into the 21st century. We speak to its developers. (mm1213.mp3)

Many blind people enjoyed the Road Runner, a small device with Doubletalk speech that enabled you to take books and other documents on the road. Now, the Book Courier enhances those functions, and adds an accessible portable MP3 player as well. (mm1214.mp3)

And Michael Lang discusses and demonstrates the Iriver IMP150 ChromeX MP3 player, in particular a special feature included in the firmware for blind users. This item may also be of interest to SonicBlue Riovolt users, as the firmware is similar. (mm1215.mp3)