Re: Camera That Talks
- From: "Cynthia Handel" <cindy425@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 17:04:30 -0400
The price of the KNFB Reader is, I believe, $3295.
Cindy
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From: <Gailselfridge@xxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 5:02 PM
Subject: Re: Camera That Talks
Has the price of this KNFB device been announced yet? And a talking device
that's portable is great, but it won't do what the optacon can do as far as
making diagrams and maps available to us via touch. That is in my opinion
why a
tactile device can do so much more. Some of us work with circuit diagrams
and
musical notation and black and white maps. Scanning or pictorial devices
won't
make these things available to us.
Gail
rather than simply rebuilding the optacon using the original circuit
designs with today's technology, it might be sensible to build a
USB-compatible tactile array in a box with the needed controls, and plug
it into something like this "camera that talks". I other words, alter and
refine oleg's readiog machine-based approach. Does it make sense to
re-develop a stand-alone optacon? From what I am piecing together over
time of how the optacon R1D and II work (here a little, there a little),
and with today's technology, it would seem feasible to build an optacon
about the size of a cassette tape case or thereabouts. (maybe not
including battery?)
Charles
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