I was thinking that there would need to be a quick way to scroll also, I used the Optacon for years, it took both hands unless you had it hooked to an automatic scanner which I only saw during training. You would not likely wish to keep pressing a button every four cells, could lead to repetitive strain injury.
Rose Combs [email protected] A picture may be worth a thousand words but it takes up three times the memory! -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 11:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: A Braille Smart Watch? I thought 4 cells didn't sound enough, but folk used to love the opticon, and that was only one finger-tips worth of image, and folk read print with it. The device would need a rolling scroll, variable speed no doubt, to coordinate to the speed you'd run your finger over a line of braile. Press and hold a button to make it scroll, take finger off button to make it stop. A reversal of the norm,holding the finger still and moving the text, instead of the other way round. Tele-type and early digital displays used to do this, with scrolling news headlines, punctuated by very succinct ads. It would work! BobH. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Hall" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 4:37 AM Subject: Re: A Braille Smart Watch? My own opinion, since that seems to be the thing for this thread, is that four cells is just not enough. Even assuming spaces don't matter, imagine trying to read a hundred-character message or tweet? Unless there's an ingenious panning solution in this watch, I can't imagine how whacking the "Advance" button twenty-five times would be efficient. Of course, I'd love to try this thing out, as the price is low for what it is, and I'm just intrigued. I'm also very skeptical that this will prove useful. It seems easier to just leave a small braille display hooked on your belt or over your shoulder, if braille is important to you. After all, would that not provide the same kind of silent notification/reply options that a smart watch can? I'm not sure. > On Aug 13, 2015, at 10:47 PM, Kerri G <[email protected]> wrote: > > Still further, for my 3 cents worth, which you are also getting for free, > grin, if you are navigating with your guide dog or cane, > you have to stop, put the harness or cane in the other hand and read your > smart watch, this is one time I prefer siri or Talk back > or voice over. > We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in > which hardly anyone knows anything about science and > technology. > > > >> On Aug 13, 2015, at 10:41 AM, Richard Turner <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Thinking this out a little further, can you wear a 20 cell display on your >> wrist? >> >> I’m not going to buy one, but just like the apple watch, (which I am also >> not going to buy,) you are paying for the convenience. >> Just my two cents worth, which you are getting for free, grin. >> >> Richard >> >> From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> [mailto:[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Larry Lumpkin >> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 10:36 AM >> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> Subject: RE: A Braille Smart Watch? >> >> Let’s think this out. At 4 cells for $300, when you look at 20 cells, >> you’re back in the price range of what you can get a >> 20-cell display for. >> >> >> From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> [mailto:[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Richard Turner >> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 12:24 PM >> To: ViPone list <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> Subject: A Braille Smart Watch? >> >> I know nothing more than what is in the article below. This was in an Email >> I received today from the National Braille Press. I >> thought some folks might be interested. >> >> The link to the article is at the end. >> >> Now The Blind Can Read Texts On This New Braille Smartwatch >> >> Giving the blind one more technological tool to make life easier >> >> By Alexandra Ossola >> Posted July 28, 2015 >> >> now-blind-can-read-texts-shifting-braille-smartwatch# >> >> Touchscreens are not conducive to the blind as they cannot see the shifting >> pixels on the smooth device. That has not only slowed >> down the technological literacy for the blind, but has also impaired their >> reading literacy, cutting them off from most >> information that isn't published in print. Some tech companies have found >> workarounds, like having Siri read texts or creating >> braille e-readers, but they are often clunky and expensive. >> >> A South Korean startup company may have finally found a solution. They >> created >> Dot >> , the first braille smartwatch, complete with shifting cells of dots. This >> inexpensive gadget could help the blind catch up to >> the age of smartwatches, the sales of which have increased 475 percent in >> the last year thanks to the Apple Watch. But it could >> also be used as an educational tool. >> >> “Until now, if you got a message on iOS from your girlfriend, for example, >> you had to listen to Siri read it to you in that >> voice, which is impersonal,” Dot CEO Eric Ju Yoon Kim told >> Tech in Asia >> . “Wouldn’t you rather read it yourself and hear your girlfriend’s voice >> saying it in your head?” >> >> The Dot wearable looks like a cross between a Fitbit and a Pebble Time, >> Alphr notes >> . On its face, it has four cells each with six active dots, which can raise >> or lower to make four braille letters at a time. It >> links up with Bluetooth to convert text from apps like iMessage into their >> braille letter equivalents with the user’s voice >> commands. The device can last for five days without stopping to charge. >> >> One key feature of the Dot wearable is its cost. Unlike braille e-readers, >> which can cost thousands of dollars, the device is >> slated to cost less than $300 when it hits the U.S. market in December. >> >> But Dot envisions bringing braille beyond the wrist. The inventors have >> tested braille screen modules at ATMs and train stations, >> programming them to display information that regularly changes, such as >> account balances or train schedules. After the wearable’s >> launch in December, the startup will shift towards the public sector, which >> it anticipates could be its largest market. >> >> http://www.popsci.com/now-blind-can-read-texts-shifting-braille-smartwatch >> <http://www.popsci.com/now-blind-can-read-texts-shifting-braille-smartwatch> >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. >> All new members to the this list are moderated by >> default. 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