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

[Jenny Keller]

OK, call me cynical, but, I think part of the reason why no one makes it anymore is because it can do so much more than something that is much more expensive Ken now.

Opticon can sometimes blow the water out of several devices or apps and I wonder if companies would rather make more expensive device is an app?

OK, send it to them over.


Jenny

> On Nov 8, 2017, at 12:50 PM, Tracy Carcione via Electronics-Talk <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Sandy.
> I couldn't agree more.  Yesterday, I got a package in the mail I wasn't expecting and my husband didn't remember.  I tried 2 different apps to read it, and both didn't say anything useful.  But the Optacon identified the address as handwritten, and I was able to decipher enough for my husband to figure out what it was, and know it really was for us.
> I don't use mine every day, but, when I need it, I'm very glad to have it.
> Tracy
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Electronics-Talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of S L Johnson via Electronics-Talk
> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2017 1:05 PM
> To: Blind-Talk
> Cc: S L Johnson; electronics-talk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [Electronics-Talk] Thank God for the Optacon+ACEAIQ-
> 
> 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 
> 
> 
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