[Electronics-Talk] +AFs-Electronics-Talk+AF0- Thank God for the Optacon+ACEAIQ-

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			Good for you, but you do realize nobody can buy them anymore right?

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From: Electronics-Talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of S L Johnson via Electronics-Talk
Sent: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 1:05 PM
To: Blind-Talk 
Cc: S L Johnson ; electronics-talk at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Electronics-Talk] Thank God for the Optacon!!

Hello NFB Friends:

I am so thankful that I still have my Optacon.  I had received some paperwork that needed to be signed and dated in a specific place.  I was able to find the correct place on the document and then check to be sure my pen had worked.  I also was able to check to be sure my printer had printed the envelope correctly.  There is nothing worse than sending in an unsigned document because your pen did not work or mailing a blank envelope because your printer was out of ink.

I got a shipment from CVS for some over the counter medications and first aid products.  I had no way of knowing which bottle was which.  I put them on my scanner which could not read them.  So then I got out my trusty Optacon and proceeded to read them and label them in Braille.  I do this when my groceries are delivered too.  In all these years since the Optacon was discontinued nobody has come with a device that can read almost anything.

I have also done some interesting things with my optacon such as, locating the  blank space in order to sign greeting cards, telling which side of wrapping paper was the printed side, distinguishing my pale blue pants from the navy pants by feeling the density of the vibrations on the tactile display, distinguishing my printed shirt from the solid colored one by feeling the difference in the display vibrations.
I guess what I am trying to say is it is too bad this wonderful technology is no longer available to the blind.

Sandra Johnson
SLJohnson25 at comcast.net