Category: The Rave Board
And it's freaking awesome! It's only $100 and is really easy to use.
The iBill is very cool, and I almost got one last year. However, I'm glad I didn't, since I now have an iPhone, and use the LookTell app. But for someone without that kind of phone, who wants an easy and portable way to identify money, the iBill is a great device.
I got an iBill for Christmas and liked it, but now I, too, have an iPhone and prefer the LookTell app. I was very glad to have the iBill before I got my iPhone, though.
I admit that I'm way behind the technology curve than most people on here. I have the same cell phone I've had for years and since it still works I feel no need to upgrade, partly because I feel no need to be connected 24 hours a day. Eventually, though, I imagine that I'll have no choice but to upgrade, so let me ask people this--Why do you prefer the iPhone over an android or vice versa? This has probably been addressed in a different section, but I'm here now and I'm just curious.
$100? good god.
as useful as I'm sure this device is, it's shocking that it's possible to take advantage of the need for such devices and charge such extortionate amounts of money for them.
True, and that's much cheaper than any money identifier that came before it.
Good god? $100 is extortion to you? Maybe you should get a job if you can't scrape together $100. Products adapted or made specifically for blind people cost money. Get a life! Maybe we as blind people should feel fortunate because we don't have car payments, car maintenance, auto insurance, and other stuff like that.
Are you really serious? If $100 is extortionist to you, then how much do you think the company, who did the R&D and who produces them should be selling them for, or do you think they should just give them away because, well, because we're just a bunch of poor blind folks who should be entitled to things for free? Honestly, after reading your post again, it's so outrageous that I'm not even sure any longer if you're serious, but if you are indeed serious then perhaps you ought to try a job. They're nice to have and they allow you to actually buy things without having to beg for them. I know it's a novel concept for some people, but you just might like it.
gosh, quite the charmer, aren't you?
Surely the issue here isn't so much that you have to pay a signifficant amount of money for a device that will help you identify your money, but the fact that the money isn't identifyable to you in the first place.
Can you not see the irony in the fact that your 5, 10, 20, 50 dollar notes are all the same and that someone is making money out of that fact?
Only in america are notes not the same - in the UK the notes are all different sizes. equally in Australia, I'm not sure about euros but I believe they are as well.
And yes, a lot of access technology is prohibitively expensive (not that I necessarily consider $100 to be that much but it is in comparison to the notes it's used for) and I can see why.
But the issue is why there is a need for it at all when a simple adaptation could have been made from the outset to ensure that there never was a need. Other countries have done it.
So how about you get off your high horse..
Well, if you're in a country that makes its banknotes different sizes then more power to you. Unfortunately, I don't have the ability to legislate changes in American currency by myself, so I have to resort to technology in order to tell what's what, and yes I've written to my representatives in Washington about this matter, but apparently it's more than just a "simple adaptation", as you claim. If your issue was with our government not printing currency in different sizes then you should have said so in your previous post and not just bitch about blind people who have to pay for stuff because everybody has to pay for stuff. Just be lucky you don't live in the lousy USA, then, and feel fortunate with all your government gives to you.
Yes, euros are different lengths and widths, which is great for identification.
I don't think $100 is an exorbitant price for most technologies; however, as SugarBaby already pointed out, it is ironic that blind Americans should be expected to pay extra money to identify currency when everyone else can identify it for free. Fortunately for those who don't have an iBill but already own an iPhone, the LookTell money reader is only $1.99.
op, no-one was bitching about "blind people who have to pay for stuff,"
My point is that in a lot of instances the access technology market is prohibitively expensive or in many instances simply unfair.
Yes, of course sometimes we have to pay additional costs in order to make our lives easier - no-one is disputing that.
But let's move away from currency recognission and look at other things; let's look at talks for instance.
You buy a mobile phone and you buy a talks licence. that's fair enough. But then if you decide to change your mobile phone you have to buy a new talks licence for that mobile phone as well, no not the full cost, but you still have to pay for the privilage of being allowed to install your version of talks on your new mobile phone. With no other software does this happen. If you buy a copy of windows for private use you can install it on more than one computer if you so choose, or install it on one and uninstall it and re-install it on another computer. It is naive to say that this practice isn't exploiting the fact that users requiring additional access technology to use certain mobile phones don't have a choice and are tied to that market so will pay the price for the upgrades anyway. Of course now the IPhone and androids have built in accessibility the talks market will inevitably die a death in due course and people buying mobile phones won't have to pay additional costs to make them accessible.
can I help here too, you can use google goggles to read money as well. It does more then read money, heck it even read my mountain dew white out bottle. Oh, did it for free smile.