SuperNova Magnifier

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MSRP: $545.00

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An OverView of Dolphin SuperNova Software

Visual Features

Crystal Clear ‘True Font’ Magnification

SuperNova’s True Font technology ensures that text and images appear crisp and smooth, even on large displays. You can magnify content from 1.2 up to 64 times, with 28 different size options to find the perfect fit for your vision. Easily zoom in and out with a keypress, mouse wheel, or on-screen buttons for seamless control.

8 Magnifier Views

SuperNova offers eight different magnifier views to keep your documents and apps in perspective:

  • Full screen
  • Split screen (top, bottom, left, or right magnified)
  • Fixed window
  • Movable magnifying glass

These views allow you to keep the rest of the screen in its original, unmagnified state, helping maintain context. You can resize and reposition the magnified area for better control over what appears on your screen.

Never Lose Sight of the Action!

SuperNova’s automatic tracking ensures you can always follow your actions. Whether you’re typing, moving the mouse, or tabbing between links, the magnifier follows you seamlessly, so you never lose track of where you are.

Control the Magnifier with Simple Keystrokes

Quickly navigate to the edges, corners, or center of the screen with easy keystrokes. Save your magnified position or set a hooked area to monitor essential information, such as a clock or word count. Hide or reveal these areas with a hotkey whenever needed.

Smooth Panning

For those who find it difficult to follow mouse movements, smooth panning offers a solution. Simple keystrokes gently glide the magnified area in any direction. Tap repeatedly to increase speed and release the keys to stop.

24 Color Settings

SuperNova provides 24 carefully crafted color schemes to reduce glare and improve reading comfort. You can adjust brightness, contrast, or color tint to create your own custom scheme. With Color Replace, swap out colors to those you recognize best for easier web browsing.

High Visibility Mouse Pointers

Choose from four pre-set mouse pointer color schemes or create your own. SuperNova lets you adjust the pointer size separately from your magnification level, ensuring the pointer is easy to see without obstructing your text. With over 200 pointer images available, there’s a solution for every user.

Highlight Mouse, Cursor, Word, and More

SuperNova’s highlighting feature helps you keep track of your location on the screen. You can highlight the mouse pointer, cursor, word, line, or even the Windows focus and Dolphin Cursor. Trainers and colleagues can easily follow along as you work. Toggle the highlighting feature on and off with a hotkey for added convenience.

Customizable Highlighting Schemes

Six balanced highlighting schemes are included, but you can also create your own by adjusting shape, color, size, and transparency. Highlighting helps draw attention to where you’re working on screen, making it an excellent tool for teaching and training.

Reading Features

Hooked Areas

SuperNova allows you to save as many hooked areas as needed, customized for different applications. This feature helps keep essential information, like word counts or formula bars, always in view. You can even monitor the time by keeping an eye on the clock with a hooked area!

Doc Reader

Doc Reader simplifies document and web page readability by reformatting them in a dedicated, easy-to-read window. You can customize the font, color, and line length to match your preferences. Hit play, and Doc Reader will read the text aloud, highlighting each sentence for better comprehension.

Line View

Line View enables smooth, single-line scrolling of documents and web pages, reducing visual clutter. Customize the font, color, and scrolling speed to suit your needs. Pause or resume with the space bar, and use arrow keys to fast forward or rewind.

Margin Release

Margin Release ensures you stay aware of your screen boundaries by showing how close your magnifier is to the screen’s edge. It adds extra space around the original screen, making it easier to keep your mouse pointer in the center. The strong contrast shift indicates when you’re approaching the screen’s edge, making navigation more intuitive.

Touchscreen Magnification

Effortless Tablets and Touchscreen Access with SuperNova

SuperNova offers seamless touchscreen access, making it incredibly simple to navigate documents and apps:

  • Use 1 finger to pan SuperNova’s magnifier around documents and apps.
  • Use 2 fingers to pinch and stretch, adjusting the magnification level in any application.
  • Use 3 fingers to tap and change color schemes, or access more magnifier options.

Additionally, SuperNova features a high contrast large print, onscreen keyboard that adjusts to the screen width, making it easier to see what you’re typing. This combination of touchscreen controls and high-contrast keyboard ensures an effortless and intuitive user experience.

Multiple Monitor Support

Get More Done with Multiple Monitors

SuperNova allows you to magnify on one, two, or as many displays as needed, making multi-tasking more efficient. You can work on separate screens with each magnified document, project presentations in their original size for sighted audiences, while keeping your speaker notes magnified on your laptop. Collaborate closely with a trainer or colleague by cloning your display at regular size for their ease.

Side by Side

Side by Side is designed for magnification users who need to manage multiple tasks at once. It works with the Windows Extended Desktop to magnify each application on separate screens, so you never run out of space. You can keep track of incoming messages on one monitor, prepare documents on a second, and browse the web or review a spreadsheet on a third. The flexibility to assign different applications to each monitor ensures you stay organized and never lose your place as each application is tracked individually.

Mouse Buffer

Mouse Buffer ensures you don’t lose track of your pointer when using multiple screens Side by Side. SuperNova’s unique buffer allows the pointer to stay on one screen until you actively move it to another. You can switch between monitors using a hotkey or adjust the resistance level so the pointer only moves when you need it to. This is perfect for situations like projecting magnified slide notes on your laptop while presenting unmagnified slides on a projector.

Clone

Cloning gives you flexibility for teaching, training, or collaboration. The Standard view option shows an unmagnified copy of any application on a second screen, allowing a partially sighted user to work with a fully sighted user. Clone can also magnify the same content across multiple screens, allowing several partially sighted colleagues to collaborate on the same project.

Span

Span allows your application to stretch across multiple monitors as if you have one large continuous screen, making it easier to manage multiple windows at once.

Presentation Mode

Designed for Microsoft PowerPoint, Presentation Mode lets you view magnified speaker notes on your laptop while your sighted audience sees your slides in their original size on a projector or large screen. It’s an ideal setup for professional presentations.

Connect & View (Low Cost Magnifier)

Clone

Cloning provides excellent flexibility for teaching, training, and collaboration. The Standard view option displays an unmagnified copy of any application on a second screen, enabling a partially sighted user to work seamlessly with a fully sighted colleague. Additionally, Clone allows the same content to be magnified across multiple screens, making it

Rotate the image in the viewer

Convenient for when your document is accidentally upside down.

Color changer

If the image is difficult to see or the contrast is poor, adjust the colors by repeatedly pressing the color changer button. This cycles through popular schemes like inverted brightness, high contrast black on white, high contrast white on black, yellow on blue, white on blue, and yellow on black.

Lock your camera’s auto focus

If your camera includes an auto focus feature, you may prefer to turn it off, especially if it becomes distracting with magnification or fluorescent lighting.

Capture the image for further exploration

The capture image button copies the camera’s image, unmagnified, which can be saved or added to a document. Alternatively, SuperNova can convert the image into text and read it aloud using the “Scan and Read” option.

Adjust the viewing area

Change the viewing area to the top, bottom, left, or right side of the screen. You can also resize the area to fill 80%, 50%, or 20% of your screen, or send it to a second monitor.

Easy document exploration

No need to move your worksheet under the camera or use an X-Y table. Instead, use your mouse or touch controls to explore the document with ease.

Connect & View (Interactive Whiteboard)

Magnify Teachers’ Interactive Whiteboard

With Connect & View from SuperNova, partially sighted students can easily connect to and magnify the teacher’s interactive whiteboard on their own tablet or laptop. The student can customize the view to suit their magnification and color scheme preferences, ensuring clarity and comfort.

The split-screen feature allows students to take notes while keeping an eye on the whiteboard, making it a seamless experience for both learning and note-taking.

Connect & View empowers partially sighted students in mainstream classroom settings to learn alongside their peers. It is simple to set up at the start of a lesson, featuring password-protected access for security. Additionally, the built-in snapshot feature allows students to save a copy of the magnified screen at any time, making it easy for them to review and study the material later on.

With SuperNova Connect & View low vision students can:

  • Magnify and explore the smartboard in comfort from their own laptop or tablet.
  • Apply a colour scheme to suit the information and their sight.
  • View the magnified smartboard and their app, side by side.
  • Take a snapshot for further exploration at their own pace or for a later date.
  • Take a snapshot to read at home – quicker and more accurate than notetaking.
  • Track the teacher’s mouse or cursor at the click of a button.
  • Create a profile for each classroom to ensure a quick start to each new lesson.

Staff and educators can be confident, thanks to:

  • Simple set-up at the start of the class with no disruption to other students.
  • Password protection; ensuring documents are always safe & secure.
  • Compatible with ALL interactive whiteboards and the LVI MagniLink Portable Magnifier.

EasyReader & Launchpad

Conveniently browse and search millions of bestsellers, classics, and periodicals with EasyReader for Windows, available in the SuperNova Media tab.

EasyReader provides direct access to the world’s largest collection of accessible book and newspaper libraries. Content from Bookshare® and other trusted library partners is made instantly accessible in EasyReader, allowing users to customize text size, colors, and reading speed.

Read directly on any Windows device, or take books with you – use EasyReader to transfer titles to portable MP3 and DAISY players for reading on the go.

Launch Pad

Launch Pad provides instant access to audio, weather, and book search. With just a few key presses, you can listen to popular radio stations, the latest podcasts, or read RSS News feeds. Launch Pad also allows you to look up the dictionary definition of a word, check the local weather forecast, search for books, and even find walking directions.

System Requirements

Computer & Processor Required: 1.5 gigahertz (GHz) or faster x86 or x64 compatible processor with SSE2 instruction set support. Almost all CPUs manufactured after 2003 will support this.

Recommended: 2.0Ghz or higher multi-core CPU.

Memory (RAM) Required:
2 gigabytes(GB) RAM for 32-bit OS
4 gigabytes(GB) RAM for 64-bit OS

Recommended: 8 gigabytes(GB) RAM

Hard disk Required: 2 gigabytes (GB) . Additional space may be needed for optional extra voices.

Recommended: Solid State Drive (SSD)

Operating System The following operating systems are supported:

  • Windows 8.1 (32-bit or 64-bit)
  • Windows 10 (32-bit or 64-bit)
  • Windows 11
Additional updates
Monitor resolution Minimum screen resolution of 800*600
Graphics Hardware Graphics adaptor that supports at least DirectX 9.1 and has a WDDM 1.1+ driver. GPU should be integrated (shared system memory) or have a minimum 128MB of GPU RAM.

Recommended: Direct X 11 Graphics adaptor with minimum feature level 10.0.

32-bit colour mode is required.

Video Adaptor limitations Windows 8.1 : External USB attached display adaptors are not supported

Windows 10: External USB display adaptors compatible with the DisplayLink standard are supported

Windows 10: Multiple monitors and graphics cards are supported, however we recommend that all monitors are connected to the same graphics card to maximise performance

Audio Sound card and speakers/headphones for speech output.
Input Any standard pointing device (mouse/trackpad) and/or Touch screen.
Connectivity Internet connection required for automatic product updates
Media Internet Download or installation from DVD.
Additional Information OCR feature may require an external camera or flatbed scanner.

Bookshelf feature may require library subscription.

Braille output requires a compatible Braille display.