Thanks, Kellie. I wasn't aware that this kind of thing was as far along as
it was. The panning up and down is not a problem, because when looking at a
raised-line map on paper, say, you have to do that with your fingers anyway
to get the whole picture. So putting small pieces together into a larger
one is something I learned to do when looking at Atlases in grade school.
As for the price, well, I kind of figured it would be something
astronomical. Because it has such a limited market - even only a minority
of blind people would use it - the price will probably not come down much.
But this is one of those cases where I would be happy to be proved wrong.
<smile>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kellie Hartmann" <hart0421@xxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 9:50 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: validation confusion
Hi Evan,
There's a company making a modern Opticon improvement--it's a little square
display, and you use a camera and the images go through a computer and
display on this thing in raised dots. The demo I saw involved a map, some
print, and--oh glory!--an honest to goodness maze game! Pricetag? Hey, if
you have to ask, you can't afford it--it was 16 grand for the better
version. The display is a bit small for big pictures and graphs, but if you
could handle panning across and up and down something and get the whole
image in your mind you could use this thing for any imaginable purpose. I
was most assuredly drooling!
Kellie
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