[blindkid] EyeNote App

[Richard Holloway]

This is cool-- I may have overlooked some discussion about it as the app is a good six months old or more, but there is an iOS App (iPhone, iPad, etc.) that is FREE and announces currency values. Seems like the stand alone device for this a while back was hundreds of dollars, right? 

The app is actually from the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing. There is a similar app called "Identify Money" but it won't load under iOS 5 for me so I can't tell you much about that.  "EyeNote" seems to work quite well with either the front or back of money. The only problem I see at this point is aiming the camera correctly as missing just tells you there is an error, not how to correct your aim, but I think with a bit of practice it would be handy.

There are also some color apps targeted for the color blind which I suspect may be useful for the blind as well, though I have not explored them a lot. The really cool thing is that if these work for a particular need, you can often buy an iPad with the app for no more than the cost of the specialized device from a few years ago and then you have an iPad, or if you already have an iPad (iPhone, etc.) clearly you can save hundreds of dollars over buying dedicated devices and you can potentially haul around many solutions in one compact device.

I even see a mobile OCR app or two, I'm sure they are not knfb reader grade items, but they may have some uses. The thing that excites me most about this is there may be a good chance some of these can be refined for use by the blind with a few interface tweaks. 

I'm wondering, are there any apps others on the list are finding useful?