Someone who believes that steam engines are still better than diesels? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij@xxxxxxxxx> To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 12:39 PM Subject: RE: How would this work? was a wish list The array is bigger than the camera is wide. You'd have to make the camera bigger, thus conflicting with other items on the wish-list. And the wish-list is, to put it diplomatically, something out of Alice and Wonderland. (grin) Mike On Thu, 11 May 2006, Sherman, Becky wrote: > It seems to me that it wouldn't need to be any bigger than the camera. > The rollers and camera could be on the bottom, of course, and the array > could sit right on top so that as you rolled the camera across, your > index finger--or whichever one you use--could be in the array. How does > that soulnd?=20 > > -----Original Message----- > From: optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Catherine Thomas > Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 7:49 AM > To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: How would this work? was a wish list > > I'm having trouble picturing the logistics of the one-handed Optacon. > The only picture I can come up with is that the camera and the array > would be one unit so we would only have one piece to hold onto. I think > the device would still take two hands to operate because we couldn't > track and read with the same hand, could we? The other question: I have > trouble fitting the camera into tight places now. If it were somehow > bigger because it had the array as a part of it, how could it fit > anywhere? This is not a criticism of the idea. I just can't figure out > how this works. > Catherine > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ > -Catherine Thomas > braille@xxxxxxxxx / > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------- > > To unsubscribe at any time, just send a message to: > > optacon-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the > quotes) in the message subject. =20 > > Tell your friends about the list. They can subscribe by sending a > message to: > > optacon-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "subscribe" (without the > quotes) in the message subject. =20 > > > To unsubscribe at any time, just send a message to: > > optacon-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the > quotes) in the message subject. > > Tell your friends about the list. They can subscribe by sending a message > to: > > optacon-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "subscribe" (without the > quotes) in the message subject. > > To unsubscribe at any time, just send a message to: optacon-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the message subject. Tell your friends about the list. They can subscribe by sending a message to: optacon-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "subscribe" (without the quotes) in the message subject. To unsubscribe at any time, just send a message to: optacon-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the message subject. Tell your friends about the list. They can subscribe by sending a message to: optacon-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "subscribe" (without the quotes) in the message subject.