Using brailled playing cards rather than an electronic means to access the
symbols is just one less thing you have to hold in your hands. I can hold
the cards in my hand, face down, and read with fingers that I am already
equipped with. No need to stick labels onto the cards when I can braille
them and access those labels with nothing other than what I was born with.
The technology is available, but can you imagine using a flat bed scanner
and OpenBook to find out what each card is? Fingers are faster, less
cumbersome, and more reliable. Independence is not having to rely on
technology unless you have to.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "dark" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 12:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] the cost of
documentation-Re:Somepracticalquestionsreguarding the Monopoly game
Well I do agree that the practical shape of the penfriend sensor would
make it less convenient to scan each card in your hand than reading a
braille label, however I suspect this will change in the future, for
example if you could have a smaller and more compact reading device which
you could hold more easily, say something the size of an actual pen.
Again though, the Penfriend is the first device of it's type and this is
likely to change in the future, plus the device isn't so awkwkard to use
once you've got the muscle memory in your hands, ---- as i said I use mine
a great deal.
Regarding independence, I'm slightly confused on how using technology
isn't independence, unless your somehow claiming that my Penfriend is
acquivolent to a human helper. Why is writing a braille label and sticking
it onto something any less relying on technology, it's just a question of
the sophistication of the technology, heck if we take this arguement to
it's ultimate conclusion maybe we should all go back to living like
gorillas in the forest and be "independent" of these houses, electricity
etc.
I'm afraid you've lost me entirely here Charlse.
Beware the Grue!
dark.
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