Low Vision Technology

My friend has very low vision, legally blind. She uses a magnifying glass now to look at her tiny phone, it is less than stellar for her for sure. wondering what kind of phones offer good technology , like a bit larger keypad and bigger screen with options to have bigger font. I know there's a blackberry one, but the data plan is pretty pricey.
Any help would be great thanks. Serious answers please.

My siblings & I felt that our parents should carry a cell phone (They were evacuated during a huge fire, & we didn't know whether they'd gotten out!) So, I did some searching, as Dad's eyes aren't what they used to be! This first one is what I recommended:

JITTERBUG ONETOUCH PHONE - Abledata: Products
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JITTERBUG DIAL PHONE - Abledata: Products
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Jitterbug OneTouch Cell Phone
http://www .independentliving.com/ prodinfo.asp?number=JB1

Jitterbug Cellphone Calling Plans: Easy-to-use for Seniors.
Emergency cell phone. Simple cell phone.
http://www .firststreetonline.com/ product.jsp?id=50814

Does anyone have the new Jitterbug phone? - Yahoo! Answers
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index; _ylt=AlyhTqEcYmKfnixXLHmqx7KB.Bd.;_ylv=3 ?qid=20071128154206AAlRfpI

They only will use it for dire emergencies, but, they do go out & about still by themselves---So, it's good for them to carry whenever they do! I don't think he's really used it, but the one live link (above) seems to be to a happy customer's Best Answer!

Answering Machines:
CAN-DO(tm) blind and low vision products for your active independent life, 1-800-537-2118
http://www .independentliving.com/ products.asp?dept= 205&deptname= Answering+Machines

Big button phones, Braille phones, large number phones
and other phones for the visually impaired
http://www .annmorris.com/ telephones.htm

Large Number, Big Button Phones
http://www .independentliving.com/ products.asp?dept= 198&deptname=Large+Number

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2008-11-14 22:57:50 by JH ♥ ASL * 愛万多

"Curb Cuts" is a TV show about assistive technology (AT) produced by the Central Coast Assistive Technology Center. Episode #5 deals ...

"The Economist article lauds American scientist George Washington Carver for developing hundreds of industrial products from peanuts...then comes disinformation: "In the 1930s, Henry Ford started using parts made from agricultural materials, and even built an ‘all-soy car’". Sorry, not "all-soy"—Ford made a car in 1941 of mostly resin-stiffened hemp fiber, with hemp plastic windows, and powered by hemp ethanol. Soy resins were used, but it has always been known as Ford’s Hemp Car. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxlj6fgQ- ZU

Ford loved American farms, which by the mid-twenties were in an economic crisis that would worsen into the great depression. Ford knew that creating new markets for farm products was essential, and with his political and financial backing, the Farm Chemurgy movement started taking off. Ford also knew that with widespread cultivation, hemp could be an economic powerhouse—and that ethanol from hemp, or any other fermentable vegetable matter, was the fuel of the future, something widely agreed upon at the time in the automotive industry.

A favorite quote of Ford’s: "There’s enough alcohol in one year’s yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for one hundred years." His first Model-T was designed to run on hemp alcohol.

Rudolf Diesel designed the diesel engine to be powered by vegetable oils, such as from hemp seed; at the 1900 world’s fair he ran his new engine on peanut oil.

To the stupendous misfortune of virtually everything but Big Oil, the chemurgy movement was stifled by Big Oil. A new National Energy Program was the subject of many bills in Congress, focused on utilizing part of Americas vast agricultural capacity for production of alcohol fuels. Big Oil responded with withering lobby power, including slogans such as the government’s proposed energy program "robbing taxpayers to make farmers rich". Then, as now, whatever Big Oil wants, Big Oil gets. Ford’s vision of cheap, clean and renewable biofuels spooked early oil barons into keeping oil prices in the range between $1 and $4 per barrel—prices so low that no other energy sources could compete. But once they were sure the competition had been killed off, the price of oil began to soar. They were not only able to eliminate competition from alcohol fuels...but were instrumental in diddling government into effectively banning hemp cultivation—an incredible robbing of the people to protect entrenched corporate profits that still endures.


http://www.opednews.com/articles/See-No- Hemp-Hear-No-Hemp-by-Rand-Clifford-08080 8-668.html
http://www.opednews.com/articles/See-No- Hemp-Hear-No-Hemp-by-Rand-Clifford-08080 8-668.html
fangtaiyang - that does seem to be the slant of the article, but it isn't mine, although I think it should be a state, not federal issue.

No, I did not know that, that is interesting. Do you know if there is any evidence that hemp alcohol is superior to other alcohol such as that made from corn?????

2008-08-09 07:14:51 by DAR

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LOS ANGELES — With authorities promising tighter borders, some farmers who rely on immigrant labor are eyeing an emerging generation of fruit-picking robots and high-tech tractors to do everything from pluck premium wine grapes to clean and core lettuce.

Such machines, now in various stages of development, could become essential for harvesting delicate fruits and vegetables that are still picked by hand.

"If we want to maintain our current agriculture here in California, that's where mechanization comes in," said Jack King, national affairs manager for the California Farm Bureau
"There's a lot of very nervous people out there in agriculture in terms of what's going to be available in the labor force," said Robert Wample, viticulture and enology program director at California State University, Fresno.

Mechanized picking wouldn't be new for some California crops such as canning tomatoes, low-grade wine grapes and nuts.

But the fresh produce that dominates the state's agricultural output — and that consumers expect to find unblemished in supermarkets — is too fragile to be picked by the machines now in use.

The new pickers rely on advances in computing power and hydraulics that can make robotic limbs and digits operate with near-human sensitivity. Modern imaging technology also enables the machines to recognize and sort fruits and vegetables of varying qualities.

"The technology is maturing just at the right time to allow us to do this kind of work economically," said Derek Morikawa, whose San Diego-based Vision Robotics has been working with the California Citrus Research Board and Washington State Apple Commission to develop a fruit picker.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,2959 65,00.html

All I know is I'd rather go for that than to keep listening to people claim certain jobs were "slave" labor. I remember when computers first came out.....they were afraid it would displace too many people and ended up it didn't. Computers were to erase the need for paper. LOL. Seems more jobs were created than what we lost. There are people still needed to fix the robots when they break down. They invented the cotton gin to replace slaves.....they are working.

What people don't get is there is always going to be rich and poor and what looks like perfect jobs and what looks like crap jobs. There is always going to be some jobs being paid more than others. Always going to be someone trying to make more money off the backs of someone else. Heck they can make movies without actors....create music without an instrument. We are all replaceable....but at what expense?

2007-09-06 12:16:09 by Untied States Of Latina

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Vision/ Scope
E-Commerce is a panacea to expand a business beyond the boundaries. Huge revenue can be generated by providing services or products in international market. Many successful businessmen used E-Commerce strategies to expand business activities to get maximum share in international market. There are many examples of successful businesses in Pakistan like US Apparel, Guard Rice etc. who expanded their business gradually and now they are pioneers in their business. If one student becomes able to implement such type of activity, he will create many opportunities for other graduates. Because when one graduate gets a job, he becomes able to afford at most one family only and on the other hand, if one graduate starts business successfully, he becomes source of earning for many families. Students would be asked to give an idea of products or services in which they are agreed to get excel in future. Further, the students can be asked to analyze a current system (company or an organization) to identify its problems and providing them the e-business \ e-commerce solutions to participate the globalization
After the successful completion of the course, the students should be able to implement e-commerce strategy in both ways like:
1.Implementation of new business idea with comprehensive international market analysis with respect to culture, language, trust building, economic position, demand of any product or service (remember: 70% new ideas fail due to lack of market analysis)
2.Expansion of old or existing business by E-Commerce to get benefits of globalization and international market share to generate huge revenue from business.


Remember:

Competing the international market is not a child’s play; it requires a comprehensive market analysis, compliance with the international standards and any business man can get benefit from fulfilling any unmet need of the inhabitants of any country. This is possible via E-Commerce. Further, it should be taken into consideration what we can produce in Pakistan easily with low cost. We can enlist the products like leather, cotton, furniture, rice, wheat, soft ware, towels, socks, vegetables, fruit, shoes, books, paper, gifts, flowers, toys, jeans, dresses, shawls, man power etc. Also, we should keep in mind what we should import from abroad like machinery, vehicles, electronics etc.

Project Deliverables
There will be four deliverables of this project. Template of 1st deliverable is given below and other deliverables will be uploaded from time to time along with their comprehensive templates for your complete guidance.
1st Deliverable:

You are required to submit a proposal about the implementation of E-business/ E-Commerce solution in a new idea of any product / service

OR

About analyzing any existing system with respect to its transformation into E-commerce \ E-business solution

You are given a choice of choosing a new idea or an existing system. Therefore, two different templates of proposals are provided you for better understanding.

Note: Existing system means any company or an organization which is doing its business manually



Proposal Template for New Idea

1.Proposal containing idea and feasibility
a.Description of idea (in one paragraph)
i.What is your Idea?
ii.Idea is product based or service based
iii.Feasibility study w.r.t budget, time, technology availability
b.Importance of idea (in one paragraph)
i.Business value
ii. Revenue generation
iii. Market share
iv.Exposure
v.Growth in future perspectives
c.Target market / customers (in one paragraph)
i.User type
ii.Cultural issues w.r.t target customers
iii.Languages issues regarding target customers
iv.Legal issues w.r.t product or services
v.Political perspectives
vi.Trust building
vii.Answering the below Questionnaire by market analysis
These questions will enhance your understanding and knowledge of your target market and industry, and ultimately determine: Is there a need for my product or service?
•What defined market am I trying to reach?
•What specific companies are servicing this market?
oAre they successful?
oAre there other companies servicing this market with a similar product?
oAre they successful?
oWhat is their market share?
•Is the market saturated or wide open? If so, why?
•What is the size of the market?
oIs it a growing market?
oIs the industry stable, volatile, growing or trendy?
•How can I reach this market?
oHow do my competitors reach the market?
•What are the business models of my competitors?
•What do customers expect from this type of product or service?
•What core competencies must the product or service have?
•What are customers willing to pay for this type of product or service?
•What is my competitive advantage?

d. Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA)
e. Payback Period
f. Rational /Summary

OR







Proposal Template for Existing System

1. Proposal about the solution of identified problem in existing system
d.Problem description found in the system and solution proposed
i.What was the problem?
ii.Severity of problem
iii.Impact on the current working system
iv.Solution proposed
v.Feasibility study w.r.t budget, time, technology availability
e.Importance of solution (in one paragraph)
i.Business value
ii. Revenue generation
iii. Market share
iv.Exposure
v.Growth in future perspectives
f.Target market / customers (in one paragraph)
i.User type
ii.Cultural issues w.r.t target customers
iii.Languages issues regarding target customers
iv.Legal issues w.r.t. product or services
v.Political perspectives
vi.Trust building
vii.Answering the below Questionnaire w.r.t market analysis
These questions will enhance your understanding and knowledge of your target market and industry, and ultimately determine: Is there a need for my product or service?
•What defined market am I trying to reach?
•What specific companies are servicing this market?
oAre they successful?
oAre there other companies servicing this market with a similar product?
oAre they successful?
oWhat is their market share?
•Is the market saturated or wide open? If so, why?
•What is the size of the market?
oIs it a growing market?
oIs the industry stable, volatile, growing or trendy?
•How can I reach this market?
oHow do my competitors reach the market?
•What are the business models of my competitors?
•What do customers expect from this type of product or service?
•What core competencies must the product or service have?
•What are customers willing to pay for this type of product or service?
•What is my competitive advantage?

d. Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA)
e. Payback Period
f. Rational /Summary





NOTE:
Please you get practical experience of market in this regard and chose a product or service which has potential need into the current international market and then proceed in accordance with the instructions provided in the deliverable. Further, you can chose any already running system of an organization regarding purchasing, selling, trading etc. and analyze it and identify the problems and propose an E-commerce\ E-business solution.

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2007-11-09 19:31:52 by Mian 03456863684

Hello everyone. i m an italian student in mechanic engineering and i ve to do my english examination...i will give you my english text i ve to give to my professor...can you give me any suggestion and grammatical correction??? Please help me...thanks

The modern robot industry is addressing itself to develop the vision technology for robot cells in order to increase productivity and open new processes to automation. According to a lot of researches and experts’ opinions, the vision technology will award to robots higher reliability decreasing cost and increasing ease of use.
Vision system isn’t new in automotive robotics but, because of its great reliability and low costs, it is gaining greater penetration and there are a lot of possible quality enhancements.
In Rick Youngblood and Roberta Nelson Shea’ s ideas, two important character in different automation industries, vision system can be employed in the field of chassis assembling and safety driving.
More robots are vision-ready, which allows users to simply plug in a camera.
Adil Shafi, president of Shafi, explains that there are only two requirements for a robot to work with vision and to see things randomly in space: we need to be able to talk to the vision sensor, either through a PC or directly to the sensor, and secondly, we need to be able to see that the robot updates its location when it’s given some feedback by vision.
Therefore these robots become good to adapt their application to different environments. This is the first pace to a massive adoption, final purpose of an industry which is improving this technology toward cheaper and much more precise and reliable robots. Moreover every industry will give users software of developing and controlling making easier use and giving the user a fundamental autonomy.
There are some difference between how vision was before and how vision is developing. Some years ago it use correlation-based pattern matching which relied on light levels, and that was very, sensitive to changes in lighting and appearance. Now algorithms have been improved to find the 3D position and orientation of parts, there are higher levels of integration that are emerging between robots and vision.
Vision system can revolutionize especially the welding phase in every vehicle building sector. “They are starting to look towards better weld quality and tracking of welds, logging the quality of the spot-welding and being able to track that to particular vehicles”, Michael DeWitte, sales director for Kuka Robotics, says.
The maturation of vision system technology is opening new avenues for industrial robots. In the future we can expect greater integration between robots and vision to combat the darkening economic landscape.

Try this. Malbene, I took a few chances when it wasn't totally clear to me what you wanted to say. If you have any questions just edit your question. I will see them.

The modern robot industry is now embracing the development of vision technology for robot cells in order to increase productivity and open new processes to automation. According to research results and expert opinions, vision technology will provide robots with higher reliability, decreased cost and greater ease and range of application.

Vision systems are not new in automotive robotics but, because of the great reliability and low costs they offer, they are gaining penetration and introducing many possible quality enhancements.

According to Rick Youngblood and Roberta Nelson Shea, who are prominent in different automation industries, vision systems can now be employed in the fields of chassis assembly and driving safety.
More robots are now being supplied "vision-ready", which allows users to simply plug in a camera.
Adil Shafi, president of Shafi, explains that there are only two requirements for a robot to work with vision and to see things randomly in space: we need to be able to talk to the vision sensor, either through a PC or directly to the sensor and we need to be able to ensure that the robot updates its location when it receives vision feedback.
Such robots will have the capability to adapt their application to different environments. This is the first step toward a massive adoption of robot technology and is the final objective of an industry which is developing its technology toward cheaper and much more precise and reliable robots.

Moreover every industry will give users development and control software, facilitating application and giving the user a fundamental autonomy.

Robotic vision is changing its direction. Some years ago it used correlation-based pattern matching which relied on light levels and that was very sensitive to changes in lighting and appearance. Now algorithms have been improved to enable the 3D positioning and orientation of parts so that higher levels of integration are emerging between robots and vision.

Vision systems are ready to revolutionize the welding phase in every vehicle building sector. As Michael DeWitte, sales director for Kuka Robotics, says: “We can look forward to better weld quality and tracking of welds, logging the quality of spot-welding and being able to trace that to particular vehicles”.

The emergence of vision system technology is opening new avenues for industrial robots. The recovery from today's downtrodden economy will certainly be supported by the emerging integration between robots and vision.

Chaio.

2009-06-01 05:43:02 by Gionny