Darren, This is good info to know as I own the Cobolt. What I like the sounds of with the Vox is it runs on a single AA battery which I have tons of rechargeables around. My guess would be the AA battery model goes through batteries even quicker than the 9 volt version?
Al -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Darren Brewer Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 4:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] talking tape measure Hi The other talking tape measure is called Vox, and can be found by googling Vox talking tape. It's pretty similar to the cobolt version in terms of functionality, but only requires a single AA battery. I have both and find them invaluable. So long as you use good batteries they are quite accurate. Thanks Darren. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Rossi To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 6:44 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] talking tape measure There pretty much is one talking tape measure around these days. It is the Cobolt Talking tape measure from www.cobolt.co.uk Several blindness sites in the states carry it as well. It's about 95 bucks plus or minus a couple of bucks. It is supposedly accurate to 1/16 of an inch, but many of us suspect it lies at times. It takes a nine volt battery, and eats them pretty readily. When the unit starts acting like it is broken, not turning on easily, giving crazy measurements, staying out late with it's friends, drinking and smoking, it usually means it just needs a fresh battery. It will occasionally not shut the hell up, driving you to near insanity until you wack it, or yank it's little life blood power supply out. It is a pretty useful, although sometimes not as usable as you would like, tool. There was another talking tape measure out there, but it appears to be hard to come by these days. You will know if you have found that other one, if it takes double a batteries instead of 9 volts. Good luck. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: [email protected] Tel: (412) 268-9081 __________ NOD32 4910 (20100302) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
