[nabs-l] Launches EyeNoteâ„¢App to Help the Blind and Visually Impaired Denominate US Currency

[Âris Nusbaum]

I can imagine.  Haha, government was wrong again in thinking they 
can do everything better than the private sector.  * Smile! And 
really? You have to snap a picture for it to recognize the bill? 
* Frown! That's what I * hated * about the KNFB Reader Classic 
when NFBMD asked me to try out one of their first prototypes, 
which happened to be the model chosen.  Come on, people, the 
technology's already there! Just use it! About privacy, um..  
headphones? If you're so worried about privacy, then you'd have 
the same problem with VoiceOver.

 Chris

"A loss of sight, never a loss of vision!" (Camp Abilities motto)

--- Sent from my BrailleNote

----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Freeman <k7uij at panix.com
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Tue, 17 May 2011 14:54:33 -0700
Subject: Re: [nabs-l]FW: Bureau of Engraving and Printing 
Launches EyeNoteâ„¢App to Help the Blind and Visually Impaired 
Denominate US Currency

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

Mike Freeman
sent from my iPhone


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 
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 Date: May 17, 2011 3:45:19 PM EDT

 To: cmacdonald at linchpinstrategies.com

 Subject: Bureau of Engraving and Printing Launches EyeNoteâ„¢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 EyeNoteâ„¢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 EyeNoteâ„¢.  EyeNoteâ„¢ 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.



 EyeNoteâ„¢ 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, EyeNoteâ„¢
 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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