[nabs-l] FW: Bureau of Engraving and Printing Launches EyeNote™App to Help the Blind and Visually Impaired Denominate US Currency

[Mike Freeman]

But LookTel is much easier to use and is far less critical in bill placement than is EyeNote. 

Mike Freeman
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On May 17, 2011, at 13:09, Kirt Manwaring <kirt.crazydude at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sean,
>  There is one that just reads out currency-it's called LookTell Money
> Reader.  It costs a couple dollars, and it doesnt have the vibrating
> feature that some people like.  I say good for them-diversity's never
> a bad thing.
>  Best,
> Kirt
> 
> On 5/17/11, Sean Whalen <smwhalenpsp at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Aren’t there already iPhone apps that do this?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> From: White House Disability Group <disability at messages.whitehouse.gov>
>> 
>> Date: May 17, 2011 3:45:19 PM EDT
>> 
>> To: cmacdonald at linchpinstrategies.com
>> 
>> Subject: Bureau of Engraving and Printing Launches EyeNote™App to Help the
>> Blind and Visually Impaired Denominate US Currency
>> 
>> Reply-To: White House Disability Group <disability at messages.whitehouse.gov>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Bureau of Engraving and Printing Launches EyeNote™App
>> 
>> to Help the Blind and Visually Impaired Denominate US Currency
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> The Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) has developed a free downloadable
>> application (app) to assist the blind and visually impaired denominate US
>> currency.  The app is called EyeNote™.  EyeNote™ is a mobile device app
>> designed for Apple iPhone (3G, 3Gs, 4), and the 4th Generation iPod Touch
>> and iPad2 platforms, and is available through the Apple iTunes App Store.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> EyeNote™ uses image recognition technology to determine a note’s
>> denomination.  The mobile device’s camera requires 51 percent of a note’s
>> scanned image, front or back, to process.  In a matter of seconds, EyeNote™
>> can provide an audible or vibrating response, and can denominate all Federal
>> Reserve notes issued since 1996.  Free downloads will be available whenever
>> new US currency designs are introduced.  Research indicates that more than
>> 100,000 blind and visually impaired individuals could currently own an Apple
>> iPhone.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> The EyeNoteTM app is one of a variety of measures the government is working
>> to deploy to assist the visually impaired community to denominate currency,
>> as proposed in a recent Federal Register notice.  These measures include
>> implementing a Currency Reader Program whereby a United States resident, who
>> is blind or visually impaired, may obtain a coupon that can be applied
>> toward the purchase of a device to denominate United States currency;
>> continuing to add large high contrast numerals and different background
>> colors to redesigned currency; and, raised tactile features may be added to
>> redesigned currency, which would provide users with a means of identifying
>> each denomination via touch.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> More information is available at http://www.eyenote.gov/ or through email at
>> eyenote at bep.gov.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> More information can be found also at:
>> http://www.bep.treas.gov/uscurrency/meaningfulaccess
>> <http://www.bep.treas.gov/uscurrency/meaningfulaccess>
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