[nfbcs] Optacon thoughts

[Dale HELTZER]

Today's technology would make an Optacon far less expensive and more
reliable.
I Won't argue it's lack of popularity though; back in the day when I was
into ham radio, I only used a straight key and was very good at it, so I
*know I'm an outlier.


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Dale E. Heltzer
deheltzer at msn.com

"Don't be humble - You are not that great" - Golda Meir

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Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2016 10:09 PM
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Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Optacon thoughts

I am sorry, and I know many people say this, but I don't buy it.

The Optacon was expensive and difficult to use, and if it worked better for
people, I think someone would still be making them. But they aren't.

APH recently announced a graphics tactile display, to come out in late 2017.
We may get back to this stuff -- but in a different way.

Dave

At 04:42 PM 9/13/2016, you wrote:
>It's amazing to me that such a relatively simple, useful tool hasn't 
>been resurrected. I would buy it in a heartbeat.
>
>
>---
>Dale E. Heltzer
>deheltzer at msn.com
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Deborah 
>Armstrong via nfbcs
>Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2016 3:55 PM
>To: nfbcs at nfbnet.org
>Cc: Deborah Armstrong
>Subject: [nfbcs] Optacon thoughts
>
>So I was helping a low-vision student this morning learn to use a 
>desktop magnifier (VisioBook) to get her math homework done. I pulled 
>out my old Optacon to insure I'd picked a representative page from the 
>book and that I had it correctly oriented.
>
>I taught myself Optacon so I'm not that good at it. But it got me thinking:
>nobody's ever came out with a modern Optacon; something that turns a 
>camera image in to a tactile display that the user will OCR with his 
>own brain power. Or at least, I don't think such a gizmo exists.
>
>It's rather sad, really.
>
>--Debee


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