That ability was in the cables - master-slave connection. So that is probably
uin the new one or would be an easy fix, since that is old electronics, not
anything blind specific.
Bye for now,
Carolyn
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Subject: [optacon-l] Regarding the new Optacon. Question for Charles
Charles,
We have all been following your updates regarding the development for the new
Optacon. One thing that crossed my mind, I wanted to ask you.
Does the new model have any feature for connecting two Optacons parallel?
What i am thinking of, is that a blind student can use his Optacon for reading
some material. We know that the old Optacon 1 and 2, both had connectors for a
visual display, which would let the sighted teacher keep track of what the
blind person actually was feeling in his finger.
A really nice feature of the Optacon. But one thing I missed with the previous
models, was the chance of connecting my Optacon, with that of someone else. If
now the new model could have a way for the blind teacher, to feel a copy of the
actual dispaly of his blind student, it would greatly increase the chance for a
blind-to-blind instruction.
Even if we go outside the classroom, this kind of feature might be worth. Say I
am to help someone blind getting used to their new microwave, and she moves her
Optacon around the keys and dispaly of the oven. I then - as things stand today
- will have to keep asking her "what do you feel", and depend solely on what
she explains to me. Had I a chance of feeling a copy of her Optacon directly
myself, I could have told her to move up a bit, turn down the contrast, do
something about the magnification, or whatever.
Being able to teach blind-to-blind, might also be one way of promoting the
introduction and usage of a new Optacon model. If we will depend on new users
learning things through a sighted person, we first will have to convince the
sighted world we really need to learn using the Optacon.
And isn't that one of the main reasons things stand the way they do: We never
really got through with that conviction? So if a blind could encourage the
usage of a new Optacon directly to another blind person, we have skipped at
least one obstacle on the marketing path, I would think.
Of course, the connection between the two Optacons could have been done through
a USB like cable. But to optimize the thing, I could have wished for the
alternative of some sort of wireless connection between the two units.
Don't know whether you have already taken steps for such a feature, Charles, or
if it is possible to implement the feature this state of the development. And
it might be worth to hear what other users think about the necessarity of such
a feature. So the idea hereby has been thrown on the board, and I will leave it
for the community for further discussion.
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