Well, the MP3 player is a bit of a no brainer. It's cheep, less than a hundred bucks. I get 30 hours of listening on a single charge which is important for me since I'm often on the road for 12 hour days. It plays ogg which is not so important to me, but it also plays flac which is crucial. It will let me use SD cards without buying an expensive and proprietary adapter. it bookmarks up to 10 folders for me on the fly and can bookmark up to 10 places in each folder. It lets me control settings like bass, trebble, and gain and it has a limiter preamp and a host of other settings which I can use to improve the listening experience for various types of audio. It has a fully adjustable crossfader, All features are fully self-voicing. I can play audiobooks in standard MP3, and I can copy and paste files with no benighted piece of bloatware to hoof music and books from computer to player and back.
The camera I use is ridiculously expensive and there are lots of things to love or love to hate about it. On the love side, it's on a monopod so I don't have to worry about holding the camera straight or at the appropriate height. It auto focusses so I don't have to worry about not lining up the shot properly. It has a provision for automatically taking multiple pictures for cases such as scanning books, and it has a motion sensor to take the new picture when I flip a page. It gives me easy access to both the image file and the converted OCR and I can convert to mp3 on the fly if I want. Barcode reader $300 bucks it's omny directional so I don't have to know where to point. It comes with several databases onboard. Need I go on? it sucks to pay a lot of money for stuff that the IPhone sorta does for free or very cheep, but honestly it's not really there yet and I need technology that works. I just don't have the patience anymore to mess around and force things into line, although I'm very happy for the people who have persevered and gotten some things to work well for them. Best, Erik Burggraaf This month in Ebony Promos: Two new gps systems for demo. Mac OS Lion When will it be supported? Ebony Consulting at accessibility Unconference Toronto. To read more and subscribe, Visit: http://www.erik-burggraaf.com/mailman/listinfo/ebony-promos_erik-burggraaf.com Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com On 2011-09-27, at 3:27 PM, Marc Workman wrote: > I'm curious how your stand alone mp3 player and camera blow the iPhone's "out > of the water" in terms of feature sets, quality, and ease of use. > > It sounds like you agree, though, that where the equivalent functionality can > be gotten out of an app, the app would be preferable to the stand-alone > device. Is there something the stand-alone money reader does that the app > doesn't? I think it's actually the other way around given the variety of > currencies that can be identified. > > I think I would prefer fewer stand-alone devices even at home. It's not just > about carrying them, but losing and recharging. My phone also always tends > to be on hand. There's obviously a risk to the swiss-army-knife approach, > eggs, basket, etc, but I do think there are good reasons for preferring the > money reader app over the free stand-alone device, and so I'm glad the > developer listened to my and others' calls for including Canadian currency > rather than thinking it unnecessary, like some may have implied, given the > free stand-alone device. > > Regards, > > Marc > On 2011-09-27, at 11:57 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: > >> The problem with my separate mp3 player, gps, camera OCR, and so on is that >> they all blow the eyephone out of the water when it comes to feature sets, >> quality, and ease of use. So, while I feel like a dope walking around with >> my pockets stuffed and bulging with with kit, not to mention paying for each >> tool A la Cart, the fact is I'm more comfortable with the separate tools >> than the IPhone. Now, if the tools on the IPhone do what you need and your >> requirements aren't that steep, there's nothing at all wrong with buying an >> IPhone and letting fly. >> >> I don't usually bother carrying the money reader. If I don't know what my >> bills are, I sort them before I leave the house. Anything else can usually >> be taken care of using the markers on the money. >> >> Best, >> >> Erik Burggraaf >> This month in Ebony Promos: Two new gps systems for demo. Mac OS Lion When >> will it be supported? Ebony Consulting at accessibility Unconference >> Toronto. To read more and subscribe, Visit: >> http://www.erik-burggraaf.com/mailman/listinfo/ebony-promos_erik-burggraaf.com >> Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 >> or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com >> >> On 2011-09-27, at 11:21 AM, Marc Workman wrote: >> >>> Agree with Ricardo. >>> >>> Why not carry a separate daisy player, mp3 player, colour identifier, light >>> detector, gps unit, money identifier, camera, etc. Even if these were all >>> available for free, I would rather pay a relatively small fee to have them >>> all available on a single device. >>> >>> It's also worth noting that Looktel announced that the price was going up >>> for version 2. So many Canadians, myself included, were able to pick it up >>> at the version 1 price of either 1.99 or 2.99, I can't recall exactly. Ten >>> dollars is a bit steep, but I thought that the initial price was less than >>> people would be willing to pay, and I would still encourage canadians to >>> pick it up, assuming it identifies our currency as well as it did the US's. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Marc >>> On 2011-09-27, at 5:57 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: >>> >>>> Another advantage is is its 1 less thing to carry. A person is more >>>> likely to forget their money reader at home than their phone I would think. >>>> >>>> Ricardo Walker >>>> rwalker...@gmail.com >>>> Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 >>>> www.mobileaccess.org >>>> >>>> On Sep 27, 2011, at 8:44 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: >>>> >>>>> That we do, Have for over 15 years. Our government had certain >>>>> accessibility standards back as early as 1990. Not that all of them were >>>>> worth the paper they were printed on, but the money identification one >>>>> has been taken very seriously by bank of canada. The old gadget they put >>>>> out first was a bit lame but the new one is super. I Told gary at >>>>> looktel that we already had a free piece that covered all the bases, but >>>>> as you say, for some one travelling either two or from canada the IPhone >>>>> app is quite useful. >>>>> >>>>> Best, >>>>> >>>>> Erik Burggraaf >>>>> This month in Ebony Promos: Two new gps systems for demo. Mac OS Lion >>>>> When will it be supported? Ebony Consulting at accessibility >>>>> Unconference Toronto. To read more and subscribe, Visit: >>>>> http://www.erik-burggraaf.com/mailman/listinfo/ebony-promos_erik-burggraaf.com >>>>> Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 >>>>> or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com >>>>> >>>>> On 2011-09-27, at 8:25 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> IDK, >>>>>> >>>>>> What if you do some traveling? BTW, you guys hand out money readers for >>>>>> free? >>>>>> >>>>>> Ricardo Walker >>>>>> rwalker...@gmail.com >>>>>> Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 >>>>>> www.mobileaccess.org >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sep 27, 2011, at 8:24 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> It's ten bucks for a money reader? Why not just get a bank of canada >>>>>>> one for free? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Best, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Erik Burggraaf >>>>>>> This month in Ebony Promos: Two new gps systems for demo. Mac OS Lion >>>>>>> When will it be supported? Ebony Consulting at accessibility >>>>>>> Unconference Toronto. To read more and subscribe, Visit: >>>>>>> http://www.erik-burggraaf.com/mailman/listinfo/ebony-promos_erik-burggraaf.com >>>>>>> Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 >>>>>>> or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 2011-09-27, at 8:07 AM, Garth Humphreys wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I believe that the version will show up as 2. However if everything is >>>>>>>> as it normally is, even if you buy now it will be a free update to >>>>>>>> version 2. Having said that, I am waiting till I see the correct >>>>>>>> version before putting down the money. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On 27/09/2011, at 10:02 PM, Matt Dierckens wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Hi list, >>>>>>>>> When hearing that the new money reader would support canadian money >>>>>>>>> finally, I went to the app store to find it, however, the one in the >>>>>>>>> canadian store says 1.10 or something. I don't want to spend $10 on >>>>>>>>> it if its the wrong one. 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