the Optacon Buzz

  • From: Catherine Thomas <braille@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 23:17:57 -0400 (EDT)

Optacon users are busy responding to the buzz. We feel it as well as hear 
it and I don't think it bothers us for that reason. If it were a steady 
buzz, a sound that continued at the same pitch and level all the time, I 
think most people could tune it out. As it is, the intermitent nature of 
the buzz would be annoying to some people. Others would have a legitimate 
auditory problem with it. I know that because I could never sit anywhere 
near a photocopy machine. The hum of the thing did something inside my 
head. I could operate a copy machine and it did not bother me, but I 
couldn't sit next to one for any extended period.
I summary, some people who are not directly using the Optacon might find 
the buxx unsettling because of something in their auditory mechanisms.
Catherine


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