[access-uk] Re: identifying foods

  • From: william lomas <lomaswilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:37:05 +0100

shame looktell cant work on iphone though 

On Jun 22, 2010, at 10:41 AM, Glenn Tookey wrote:

> This is what we will be demonstrating at Sight Village, aiming to be in the 
> UK market in August
> 
> 
> http://www.looktel.com/
> 
> 
> Regards
> Glenn
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Bob
> Sent: 22 June 2010 10:13
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: identifying foods
> 
> What about this:
> http://www.sightandsound.co.uk/events/?p=656
> 
> It mentions Portable object recognition?
> 
> Might be worth a look?
> 
> 
> 
> On 22/06/2010 06:11, Dean Wilcox wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I haven't seen this mentioned yet, to my surprise.  There is a talking bar 
>> code scanner called the I.D Mate.  The previous model was called the Omni 
>> but there is one coning to the UK shortly called the Summit.  It is a self 
>> contained unit  with a database of over 2 million products  It costs about 
>> £1000 and it one reseller is the Force Ten Co.
>> 
>> I know many people on list will say there are better and cheaper ways of 
>> labelling and identifying products.  I agree cheaper but better?  That 
>> varies from person to person.  I don't own one but it really would be great 
>> to just identify a product like other sighted people just like that.
>> 
>> On 20 Jun 2010, at 10:10, william lomas wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Has anyone developed a product that we can run over a box of food for 
>>> example and hear what it is, and how long to cook it i.e., the instructions?
>>> I can use the penfriend but yet again, need sighted help to actually know 
>>> what I am about to cook in the future
>>> I"d have though by now a device to read just I don't know, shepherds pie 
>>> oven cook x degrees for 30 minutes for example, would have been invented 
>>> for us blind folks by cobolt or a similar company
>>> 
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