I do believe that such a gadget exists. It is a portable, talking bare code reader. If I am not mistaken, it is quite expensive. It must be or I'd have one. LOL Jill On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, Jo Clayson wrote: > Speaking of technology -Many grocery stores now have some wee electronic > label on the shelves that gives the name of the product, price, unit price, > code #, and a bar code. The employes have a gadget that can change the info > if needed when they are restocking. It seems that it wouldn't be too hard > for some body to devise a similar gadget for reading that will then > translate the info into an audio format, or even into electronic Braille. > Would something like that be helpful? What kinds of problems or drawbacks > would there be? > > Jo > > > > > >