Check out this well done and informative video demonstration of the PenFriend on YouTube - dry British humor included!
Features: - Make audio labels for just about anything using the provided stickers
- There is no limit to the record length associated with each label
- Over 70 hours of recording time available on 1 GB internal memory
- Ability to download MP3 files including books and music - computer required for this function
- Includes 127 labels in a mix of sizes and shapes, built-in speaker, USB cable, neck lanyard and two AAA batteries
- Extra packs of labels are available. See sidebar. Please note that for proper operation, label packs must be used in order. In other words, A labels need to be used before B labels, B labels before C, etc.
- Labels cannot go into the washing machine
RNIB PenFriend Audio Labeller
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For a blind or low vision person, distinguishing between common household items that are shaped the same but have different contents is a significant ongoing issue. For example, when hunting through the pantry, how do you tell the difference between the tomato soup and the cream of mushroom soup, the peaches and the pears? How do you keep track of your different DVD's, or the array of artists in your CD collection? How do you know which prescription medicine you are taking, and what the instructions are? With sight, these issues are addressed without much thought, but for blind and low vision people,
figuring out dilemmas like these is a day to day hassle. We are excited to bring you a wonderful solution to this problem - the PenFriend, developed by RNIB (the Royal National Institute of Blind People in the UK). The PenFriend is a cool gizmo that allows you to put a small sticker label on most anything. Then you touch the tip of the PenFriend to the sticker, press a button, and record your spoken description of that item. From then on, you can touch the tip of the PenFriend to the label, and hear your own words telling you what it is. No more wondering if you grabbed a Diet Coke or a 7 Up or whether the cake mix you're about to open is chocolate or yellow; no more having to start each DVD in the player to know what movie it is. You can label important papers to keep them straight so that you know which one is the list to take to the grocery store and which is the list of medications to show the doctor. It's even possible to make a day-timer by starting each page with a date label, and then adding labels with your different appointments. Only your imagination of how and where you can use the PenFriend to identify things in your life is the limit.
For more information or just for fun, check out John's informative video demonstration on YouTube (above) - dry British humor included!
The PenFriend is just $139. Purchase it at our online store
or give us a call.
Extra Label Packs (approximately 400 labels) are also available for $29 with free shipping.
