PenFriend demonstration

Hints and tips on how to use your PenFriend audio labeller. Please note: prices are correct at time of publishing, please check http://goo.gl/qvxl1 for latest pricing.

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[RNIBPRODS]

@jleigh416 Yes you can, you would just need to copy the files from the Pen you recorded on to all the other Pens you want to use to read them.

[Robert Underwood]

No the information is not stored on the label but in the individual pen. So the label has an identifier and the pen stores the verbal information referencing the code on the label. The label is a bit like an individual bar code. I would guess that if it were to be study course a pen could be loaded via a computer with the information? Hope it helps, Bob

[jleigh416]

Hi! I am doing a project about improving menu accessibility for visually impaired people in Montreal. One of my blind respondents has recommended Penfriend labels as a way of making menus accessible to people with the technology, and I have a question: can the Penfriend read labels that have been recorded by other pens?

Thanks!

Jenny

[Brian Coppola]

Very good device. Not just for the blind, but for everyone. it should be part of a hurricane preparedness kit for people who take lots of medications.



[jimizuri]

A brilliant piece of kit. And of course, multi- lingual. I just don't realise how difficult the simplest things for sighted people can be for those less fortunate. I will be taking one for my girlfriend's mother, who is a Russian speaker. Am sure it'll help her. Well done RNIB

[jistaface]

This is a model of a good demo video!

[jistaface]

It doesn't print out labels. It's audio only. Each label comes ready with a code the pen can recognise. Whatever you record for that label, the pen plays it back.

The labels is identified electronically by the pen. It works like the glass swipe-panel on the end of the conveyor belt in the supermarket. The checkout machine recognises each item and bleeps. Your pen plays back your own voice instead.

Instead of a bleep, it's your own voice giving you whatever message you recorded for that label.

[jistaface]

These penfriends also have laundry labels that you put on the care label. So you can know exactly what an item is and how it should be washed. The laundry labels wash up to 50 degrees C (about 120 F)  and survive 50 washes still readable (but not dry-cleaning).

[jistaface]

For disposable items like food packets, you can even use it to make an instant shopping list: just stick the sticker with onto a solid backing like a penny with blutack its the other side, or stick it onto those small, cheap magnets you can buy in strips. When you finish an item of food, take the label with its backing and stick that on the fridge.

After a few days, you'll have a row of readable labels sticking to your fridge door to remind you what has been used up.

[Amanda adams]

does it make printerable labels or am i misinformed ?