Pat, you and I probably are about at the same place with all
of this.
Bye for now,
Carolyn
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design and mechanics of the optacon III
Christo,
I would guess that the limiting factor of an Optacon IIII is
financial. The people designing and implementing the device
I am sure have spent personal funds to see the project to
where it is but personal finances have their limits.
Manufacture and retail costs of a small number of devices
would be high and would be "up front" costs. Presumably
something would have to happen in that area before we would
see the new device.
And I wonder, at the end of the day, how many Optacons would
be sold? I have one working one and another marginally
working, which Richard Oehm could return to health. And I
am an old guy and truly wonder about the economics of
investing in another device when I am pretty well set right
now. But, I do love new accessibility technology so who
knows!
I hold the Optacon in heighest regard - I've been a user for
nearly forty-five years and know that my personal and
professional lives were significantly improved by the
Optacon. It's been said here before that younger users will
be hard to recruit, both due to the learning curve and the
availability of so many newer technologies.
I wish the project the very best and will of course continue
to be interested in the project.
Thanks for reading my thoughts.
Pat ByrneAt 10:16 AM 12/18/2016, you wrote:
You know, we have been reading about the Optaconto reality.
3 for some years now and it doesn't seem to be any closer
Will this remain a pipe dream forever. All the discussionsand
exchanges of thoughts and ideas about it don't seem to getanywhere.
Perhaps discussions should change direction and beginfocussing on
actually making it happen. I have to ask myself: will I seea
redesigned Optacon within the remainder of my lifetime?Carolyn Arnold
Kind regards
Christo
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Subject: [optacon-l] Re: a question regarding the ergonomic
mechanics of the optacon IIIand
The more bells and whistles, the more the cost of design
manufacturing and the more things there are to go wrong -KISS - keep
it simple, smart guy.Pond
Bye for now,
Carolyn
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Subject: [optacon-l] Re: a question regarding the ergonomic
mechanics of the optacon IIIone hand, we
I must confess to being confused by the replies. On the
want an Optacon-like device just for reading. On the otherhand, we
want an optacon module which is a part of a device. Alldoable.
Optacon II
The souped up optacon III--which looked very much like the
in a polished smooth metal case did just that. The speechwas made to
work thanks to the help of a certain company. It couldrespond to
input from its specialized camera of course, and from ascanner, and of
course read files in memory.system with
It seems now that a module as a part of a more encompassing
one-handed reading capabilities is what is prefered?but the
Just to understand, is this correct?
Personally, I liked the souped up Optacon III just fine,
reality for better or worse is that it might needs be apart of a
greater system. Man:
I could see as the device was several features like a nifty
audio-calculator with the benefit of an optacon displayworking
together just fine, but so be it.design and
Thanks for clarification,
Chuck
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From: Marianne Näränen
Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2016 5:11 AM
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Subject: [optacon-l] Re: a question regarding the ergonomic
mechanics of the optacon IIIhave a device
Hello,
I definitely agree with Noel and Carolyn, I would like to
merely for reading.(without
Best wishes,
Marianne
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