 I'm with Cynthia Harrianto from the PRC booth and these guys claim to have been in business for, what did you say, 50 years doing accessible technology? Yup, 50 years started in 1966. And this is primarily for those with what kind of disabilities? Speech impairments, so needing some type of technology for communication. Okay, so 50 years ago that's what, sticks and rocks, how did that work? So I believe the first, the way the company started was two guys who were engineers wanting to help people. It's how bad things always start, you know, it's always a mess. Started tinkering in their garage, the first product that I know of is kind of like this giant metal box and it, people would kind of tap a button essentially and put, with Morse code and then out would come a strip of paper that printed out what their message was that they sent. Wow. Morse code. So sticks and rocks. There you go. Okay, so what have we got in front of us? By the way, this is mostly an audio podcast so describe as much as you can of what you're seeing. So which one do you want to start with here? So we currently, our current line of products is called the Accent Line and we have different communication devices in different sizes. All of our devices can be accessed through touch with your hand, through switch access if you're not good with using your hands or with eye gaze or head mouse. To any of the audience that hasn't heard of switch technology, these are basically buttons that you can push maybe with a tilt of your head, something against your cheek, that sort of thing. Yeah, so you're thinking someone with a pretty significant physical challenge. Often someone who uses switches doesn't have great vision either so they are relying on the switch to also get an auditory prompt to hear what word they're on as they're going through their choices and they might not be able to use their hands so they might be using a head to press the switch or a knee to press the switch, whatever body movement they can use to get access to. Technology is made famous by Stephen Hawking of course. That access method is actually pretty similar to what Stephen Hawking uses. Okay, so we've got three tablets in front of us here, kind of a small, medium and larger tablet. What are these doing for us? So what we have set up first, I guess the smallest one is called the Accent 800 so it has an 8 inch touchscreen. This is our most portable option, it has a little carry strap on the bottom so someone who had a disability but was mobile, like maybe a little guy with autism who was running around would put the strap over their shoulder and then be able to pull it up and access their word. No, no, then they swing it around and hit their sister with it. Or they, yeah, or that, you know. So let's keep it pointed towards him. So what would we do with this? I see a bunch of little symbols. I see a name tag, I see a thumbs up. Yeah, so the symbols on the screen are, this is sort of a beginning vocabulary layout. So the bottom part of the screen always stays the same. So if I was hungry and wanted something to eat, I could press the apple that says eat and then I could hit my, the top row just changed so it's context to where. Eat pretzel. Just got a pretzel. Or maybe I don't want to eat something. So I don't want to eat, no, that's too healthy. Don't want to eat yogurt. Don't want to eat yogurt. Want to eat french fries. Yeah. I want to eat pizza. There you go. So she's just hitting buttons that are forming senses so it's context to where and allows you to. Yep. And the bottom part of the screen always stays the same. So we have a big focus on single words because we need to use single words to communicate our own thoughts versus having all stored pre-programmed phrases on a system that's kind of someone else. Some adult came in and guest tried to, you know, do something. I would like some flavorful broccoli, please. Yeah, right. So if someone was just learning, we could also hide buttons on the screen to help them when they're first starting out. So I could hide everything and say I'm just practicing the words play and go and stop. And then everything else is gone while I'm learning those words. Oh, I see. So as she eliminated them, she's just got three buttons showing now so that the student who's trying to learn to use this would just have three to choose from. You got it. Very cool. Okay, so that's accent 800. That's the accent 800. Let's go medium next. Sure. Medium is the accent 1000. We can leave it sitting down there if it's easier. So the accent 1000 has a 10-inch screen. It's currently set up to be used with switches like we were talking about a minute ago. So for someone who doesn't have good control of their hands to touch a screen and might also have a visual impairment. So we see a big red button and a big yellow button. So I'll just go through the switch axis. So switches mean that I'm hitting my big red button and it's moving through my choices. It's saying tell me more, stop, go. Let me listen to this. Hello, I heard the word I want and I'm hitting my yellow button to speak it. So that second voice is kind of like a kid's voice so that would be the one that's coming out to say my message. Okay, okay. First voice telling me what word I'm on in case I can't see the screen because I have a visual impairment. Second voice speaking my message out to the listener. Now there's only a grid of eight buttons here. I have trouble picturing I'd be able to have a lot of communication with eight buttons. It starts with eight and then it keeps growing and the words stay in the same spot. And so like go for instance is always three red presses away, more, stop, go, and I hit my yellow button. And then when I go up to the next level, it's going to grow with me. There's actually one, two, three, four, five, six different levels and that someone could progress through. So it's got the built-in training. So one of the next levels is called pathway. I'm going to go in there. She's clicking some buttons. Oh, holy cow. We had eight buttons. Now there's about 200 of them. There's 84 buttons on the screen now, but I'm still going to say go the same way. One, two, three red presses and then I say go. Okay, interesting. So it's going to keep growing and the words stay in the same order. Okay. You can also use this accent 1000 for touch or with eye gaze. So with a camera that could go on the bottom of it to track your eyes to control it all with your eyes as well. Okay. All right. Yep. So is this someone I played with earlier with this? No. So, oh yeah, you know it was. Yep. So there's also what I have on here is a head mouse. I need to do a demo here if you're doing this. Yeah. So we'll do a, there we go. We're going to check out the new point head mouse on the accent 1000. The new point can go on actually any size device. So that's the camera that's mounted on the top. This is the camera. Yep. And it shines in infrared light that's going to shine off of this little silver dot and then reflect back on the screen to make a selection. So I'm going to put you on a setup. Put me on that simple screen with eight buttons. With eight buttons? Yeah. I might be able to do, I might be able to pull that one off. All right. Steve likes it when I do this. So I look like an idiot by the way. That's our goal here. And then we turn the head mouse feature on. Okay. Yeah. She's just changing some settings on the screen right now so that I can. Yeah. So it's going to recognize the silver dot instead of the switches. All right. So it looks like you pretty much need somebody to help keeping this programmed up for you. Well, I guess you'd figure out the settings and then it wouldn't be changing all the time. Yeah. Okay. So I'm going to highlight the buttons so they turn a color. Do you have a certain color that you like? Pink. Pink? All right. You got it. It's a little more purple pink. Is that okay? Purple pink is okay. We can work with that. Okay. So it's going to turn pink if I select it correctly. As you're looking at it, it's going to turn pink. So you have an idea of where you're at. Okay. On the screen. Okay. Pink over the color. So it might be. Can I put glasses on glasses? Yep. You can put glasses on glasses. I think I won't. Usually you would just have the little silver dot and you'd stick it right on your forehead or on your glasses. Oh, you can do that. Oh. You have like the guy up there. Oh, he's got it on. We have a picture of a guy who uses a head mouse just like you and he actually works at Ohio University. So speaking with one of these. Okay. So I'm going to get down in here and you can see a cursor moving around. Hang on. I got to adjust it like you taught me. Okay. Let's see. I'm going to hold it over the button. You want to say? No. And then. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. So the same software we saw and all of these can all run on any different device. Are these all run right underneath? They're all, no, it's all Windows based computer that PRC has built specifically for our hardware and software. Okay. Yeah. Okay. To run it, to make it run optimally. Okay. So what we see here is it's set up on the vocabulary called Essence. That's for an adult, such as maybe an adult with ALS who has all the, they've already learned language. They're not a kid who's starting to learn language. So they just need a way to get it out. So primarily based on keyboard and word prediction. And it's set up for eye gaze so you can control it all with your eyes. Oh, okay. So not even the glasses? Not even the glasses. Oh, wow. Okay. Do you want to try or should I? Yes. Okay, you're going to try. If it makes fun of me, that'd be the best. Okay. So here's, I'm going to, here's the first part. We might actually give you a chair. You want to sit down? No, I can squat. You can squat. Oh, she's got a chair right here. Why not? Okay. Take it. Kara wanted something to do anyway. Okay. Perfect. So I do have to lower, I'm going to lower it down to meet your height. And so this is when you're really, I call this with kids. You're going to get the booger shot. That's what I say. So we're going to find out what you're going to get a zoom in right now. Right up the nose. To make sure you're in the right spot. All right. There you go. I kind of warned you a little bit. Nice. That is making fun of me. Okay. So the screen just found my eyes to the people listening. The screen found your eyes. Okay. But there's going to be a dot that comes in the middle of the screen. Okay. And I want you to follow it around while it moves. Just looking at it. Okay. So it's calibration mode. It's calibration mode. Okay, I'm looking at it. So I'm holding my head still, right? Yep. Just looking with your eyes. It's like I'm having an eye test. There's a little blue ball bouncing around the screen. I'm looking at it. I'm allowed to blink, right? Okay. Perfect. Complete. That was pretty good. Yeah. Awesome. Yeah. So I'm going to have you, why don't you start with like a target practice to get used to it. Okay. So we're going to test your accuracy now. Okay. See if you can unpause yourself. There's a little red line on the top of the screen. Can you look there? There you go. It turns green. Got it. Awesome. Now look at the target. Boom. Cool. Am I allowed to turn my head? You can, yeah. But it's more with your eyes. It takes something. Wait. I don't know. You put it the same spot twice. That messed me up. I'll tell the engineers to fix it. No, that's good. Oh, the grid's getting smaller. It's getting smaller. Uh-oh. You're up to 84 buttons on the screen now. Wow. So I'm basically just looking at this thing. No, I can't get that one. It's tough in the corner. Okay. Do you need help? Yeah. I can't get to that. I'm even faking. Try to look below it. Okay. Even. No, I can't get there. Really hard in the corner. I'm looking at the box two over to the left. There. I had to go two over to the left. Okay. Oh, there we go. Yeah, that was two over to the left to get to that one. All right. So bottom right corner. We got to work on your vision. Oh, really? Oh, no. Well, now you have a grid of 144 buttons. Oh, I'm never going to hit that. Oh, I got it. You got it? See, I don't think it's me. I think that thing's out of... Uh-oh. I'm staring right at that. So I think... Yeah. So we'd have to do a calibration where you'd look at more points on the screen to be able to get that smaller area. Okay. Wow, that is pretty cool. You got to, I think, 60 squares on the screen before you even... It's a good score, huh? Tell me something. That was a very... It was an excellent job. Yeah. So someone who had ALS or if it was... It would be a different setup for a kid who needed to... Who had good vision but didn't have good motor control. Yeah. So we'd go... They would be able to not only type, but they could also do all their computer functions so I could use a keyboard with word prediction. And you're doing that with your finger but I could be typing with my eyeballs, right? Yep, you could be typing with your eyeballs so I'm going to... All right. Well, I think we better call it but this is now the... Yeah. So this was the action 1400 and the company is PRC. How would people find out more about the products? You would go to our website with our tricky name, printrom.com. And how would you spell that? P-R-E-N-T-R-O-M.com. There it is on the screen. Perfect. Yeah. All right Cynthia, thank you very much. Yep, you're welcome. It's really interesting to see cool stuff.