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Visual Aids |
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By: googily_eyes Date: November 6, 2013, 1:09 am |
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So I was curious about CCTV's and portable magnifiers, as |
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someone just posted a link to one. I thought, hey, cool, I |
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actually really need one of those for shopping because for the |
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life of me, all the prices and labels are too small for me. And |
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not just for shopping--there's a ton of things I can't see, even |
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with contacts on. Lots of times I have to take off my contacts |
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or glasses and put it up to my eye and let my nearsightedness do |
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it's thing. So a magnifier would be great. |
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And then I looked at the prices. Wow. I found it really |
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disheartening. I wasn't expecting it to be beyond $1,000 for |
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something with apparently only a 4 hour battery life. My tablet |
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gets 10 hours and was only $300. |
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Anyway, what are your experiences with visual aids? What aids |
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are out there? Are there aids for seeing farther too? I'm just |
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trying to gauge what's out there. |
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Re: Visual Aids |
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By: Cass Date: November 7, 2013, 9:59 pm |
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I use a glass dome magnifier that I got from my local blind |
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school. I went to public school though and they paid for it so |
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I didn't have to, which was awesome! I've been using it for 8 or |
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9 years and its super helpful and I carry it around in my |
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backpack; it wouldn't fit in a pocket but it would easily fit in |
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a purse. I don't know where you could find one but if you |
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searched around online something similar might pop up. I |
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remember it being a reasonable price. |
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