Hi Steve and all,
I couldn’t find the price on the website either. I guess even though
they say it’s cheaper than its alternatives in the market, it would
still be considerable amount of money, maybe the equivalent of high-end
laptops prices. So they probably haven’t mentioned it on the website not
to deter people right away, and to catch customer’s interest first. This
is a common business practice in the Middle East! Discuss specs first
then talk money. Customers who start talking about prices before
discussing the actual product viewed as timewasters. Different cultures
and that.
I will get in touch with them when I have the chance to find out about
features, buying from the UK, warranty, availability of trying before
buying, manuals in English etc. A cousin of mine is interested in it so
I’ll be doing this anyway. What I know for now is what you read on the
website, plus that it reads English and Arabic languages, it can
recognise scenery and currency, and it looks the glasses uses Vocaliser
TTS from the voices I heard on the promotional video. And I believe that
they have employees who can communicate in English so if someone would
like to drop them an email they would probably get an answer.
Will report back to the list when I have more info.
HTH
Amro
On 12/01/2021 02:51 pm, Steve Nutt wrote:
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Interesting that I hit Know More on Price and Specifications, and no price came
up for me.
It's a strange website.
All the best
Steve
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: FW: The most advanced wearable assistive tech yet...
Only £2700? Order me two please.
I received the email too… I was hoping the price would be more reasonable as
this thing uses mainstream hardware, Google glasses and, I guess, a mobile
phone. Anyway, a short while ago I came across a similar product with the same
functions called Amal Glasses produced by a company in Dubai. When they asked
the representative in the video what makes your device stands out from other
similar glasses for the blind in the market, he said the price. Those glasses
have the same functionality but were produced for the Middle East and Easton
markets, and we took in consideration the purchase power of those markets, he
said.
I’m yet to investigate more this product, and I can report back when I do if
anyone is interested, but in the meanwhile you can read about them on their
website at
Amal Glass | <https://amalglass.com/>
HTH
Amro
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thought those of you who perhaps don’t know anything about this
product might find it interesting. The caveat is that this product
starts at £2,695!
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have to bring it down to my Mum and ask her to read it. It's also
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anyone else for help.
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when you're a private person it's nice to be able to call one of your
own contacts. I can call them directly from the glasses and they see
everything that the glasses can see. I used it recently to organise my
food cupboards with my sister's help.
I think the glasses will be really useful when I'm back using public
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and when to stand out so I could easily have my Mum on the phone to
ask her the number of the approaching bus. And the same with finding
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around you as I'd never have known that before.
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