Hi Anne, Well of course it's always wait and see with any of these things. And it sounds like all they have now is a prototype, so who knows if it'll ever amount to more. And even if they do develop it, I wonder how good the OCR will be. I just thought it looked like an interesting device.
Funny you mention the Optacon. I found mine during our last move. It's dead as a doornail and hasn't been used for nearly forty years. I can't decide whether to try and repair it or not. But I can see why you'd keep it around if yours still worked, I feel sort of sentimental about the thing. It was such an incredible blast from the past when I opened the box and there it was. Cheers, Donna On Feb 25, 2014, at 11:24 AM, Anne Robertson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
