Hi Nicol,
I once tried an Opticon maching at a friend's hous so I know a little about
it.
The company that made it stopped about ten years ago.
It had about a hundred bumps in a finger shaped curve that vibrated when
shown dark shapes.
Theis was connected to a camera thet sent the despaly the view of what it
was seeing.
You could read but very slow, one letter at a time and you had to recognize
the forms of the print letters.
It had the advantage of being able to display everything the camera looked
at, computer screens, money, labels of cans and even handwriting.
It was expensive I think about $4000 and was sold by Telesensory Systems.
Another company bought the rights to produce the device but they haven't
yet.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicol Oosthuizen" <noosthui...@sars.gov.za>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 8:35 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] brain teezer
Ok, lets shed some light on the matter.
The optacon, if I spell it right, is a device used in the old days to
read something.
I'm not sure what you can read with the optacon.
If I'm not mistaken, I think you can put a sighted document such as a
book into it and then it will write the letters on your hand palm so
you put your hand inside it then it will write the letters on your hand
palm .You will not have sighted writing on your hand, it just makes the
pattorns on your hand.
You need to know how each sighted letter looks like in order to use
this machine. I do not know if it is still used today.
I hope this is not as clear as mud?
lol
-----Original Message-----
From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org]
On Behalf Of dark
Sent: 09 September 2009 02:20 PM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] brain teezer
I'm afraid I'm a litle confused. Do you mean octagon ie, eight sided
shape?
I'm not even sure I know what an optacon is let alone who invented one,
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right now, my best answer for who invented opticon is you Nicol, sinse
I've
never heard of one before now, ---- lol!
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