[infoshare] Fw: [CnD] Fw: [Members] Scanners to help blind in kitchen

  • From: "Maria" <malyn87@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "Info" <infoshare@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 11:43:27 -0500

Good morning InfoShare members,
Here is some info on a piece of equipment which I hope will be available to us soon.
Maria

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Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 10:57 AM
Subject: [CnD] Fw: [Members] Scanners to help blind in kitchen



Scanners to help blind in kitchen

Agence France-Presse, February 23, 2010

Blind people in Switzerland will soon have help telling their ravioli from
their tinned fruit in the kitchen as a new loud-speaking device able to
decipher 50,000 products was launched Monday.

"It is almost indispensable for a blind person who wants to live
independently," the spokesman for the Swiss union for the blind that will
sell the device, told AFP.

"Being blind myself, I can tell you that if you are in the kitchen and you
want to open a tin of ravioli without running the risk of actually picking
up some tinned fruit, it is absolutely necessary," Martin Mischler said.

The $450 US scanner, which uses speech synthesis, has the size and
appearance of a small television remote control. It is programmed to be able
to read the bar codes of 50,000 products sold by leading Swiss retailer
Migros.

Some scanners will be available to use in Migros supermarkets.

"In future we can imagine that (the scanner) will also give the price or
expiry date," Mischler said, who estimates only "a minority" of
Switzerland's 20,000 blind and partially sighted will use the device.

The Calgary Herald


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