Today Metec can offer a variety of Braille-displays, with either
flat or concave caps, and with up to 2 interaktion Buttons
and chances are that you - as a Braille-reader - are using Metec-Braille-cells without knowing it.

Metec Engineering Ltd. was founded in 1974 to produce and further
develop the first small electromagnetic Braille-cell ever. The first
development step to this device had been made at the Stuttgart
University's "Institute for design and manufacturing in fine
mechanics". In 1975, Metec could ship the first lot of pocket
calculators with a readout in Braille, thus starting the "Electronic
Age" for the blind.

Metec continued the development and, based on its spring-supported
second generation of Braille-dots, shortly after its 10th anniversary,
the first "Dot Matrix Display" DMD 120060 with 7200 tactile dots
could be presented, the first display that can present tactile
graphical structures on-line from the computer.

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