Hello Donna, This is interesting inasmuch as it comes from a well-funded lab. But over the years, I've heard of so many attempts to produce something of this sort and very few of them have come to market. One that has is the TopBraille, which converts printed characters to Braille characters and is pocket size. As a long-term optacon user, I find the TopBraille clunky and it hasn't found much of a market. If I remember rightly, the TopBraille also speaks if you want it to.
I keep hoping that haptic technology will eventually result in a miniature optacon that could be used one-handed. Until then, my two optacons will never be far from my hand. Cheers, Anne On 25 Feb 2014, at 17:45, Donna Goodin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> First, forgive the cross-post and the OT post., but as I know reading is a >> subject that occupies much space on both lists, it seemed appropriate to >> post to both. >> >> Below is a link I received to an article about a new product under >> development. It's a device that you wear on your finger, and then scan >> across a line of text to hear it read out loud. It obviously has a ways to >> go before it would be practical to use, but wow, what cool possibilities it >> could open up, if the OCR capability is decent. >> >> http://news.discovery.com/tech/gear-and-gadgets/finger-computer-reads-books-aloud-140221.htm?utm_source=TW&utm_medium=DNews&utm_campaign=DNewsSocial >> >> Cheers, >> Donna > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
