[Reader-users] official newbie

[robert stigile]

Hello,
What was demonstrated at the exhibit hall table was the updated 
version which was being distributed if you had your sd card with 
you.
When Ray Kurtzweil demonstrated the reader on Thursday, he was 
using a software version that is not available yet.
He was demonstrating what will be in the future, so when it said 
that the cup was a cup and the pill bottle was whatever it said, 
that is from a version that will be available very soon, but not 
yet.
The new current version allows you to read different types of 
colored backgrounds, such as light text with dark background.
I hope this helps,

Robert Stigile


> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Laura Eaves" <leaves1 at carolina.rr.com
>To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user 
list"<reader-users at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 19:15:52 -0400
>Subject: Re: [Reader-users] official newbie

>What do you mean? Are you saying that the demo version at the 
convention was
>using software not available? That would indeed be annoying.  But 
I am having
>great fun reading the docs and poking around.  Thanks for any 
pointers you
>might have.
>--le

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com
>To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list"
><reader-users at nfbnet.org
>Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2007 5:13 PM
>Subject: Re: [Reader-users] official newbie


>Laura:

>The pill-bottle-reading was using software not yet available to 
regular
>Reader users yet so you may still have difficulty.  However, the 
new
>software on the current Reader does read far, far more stuff then
>previously so think you'll still enjoy it.

>Mike

>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Laura Eaves
>  To: Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list
>  Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 1:03 AM
>  Subject: [Reader-users] official newbie


>  Hi all! -- Well I am home from the convention and am now the 
proud
>owner of
>  one of these knfb readers! It is still in the box but I will
>definitely be
>  playing with my new toy soon -- I am hoping on hope that it 
will be as
>  useful as I think it could be.  At the convention, it read an 
aspirin
>bottle
>  label with no trouble at all, despite the tight curve of the 
bottle
>surface.
>  It also read everything on a form with several different fonts.

>  I must say, though, that I had a hard time choosing between the 
knfb
>and the
>  other reader "MobileEyes" from Gorilla Inc.  The latter also 
performed
>very
>  well.  The difference between it and the knfb was that it did a 
lot
>more
>  things -- actually is a pda and also does screen magnification 
in
>addition
>  to speech -- and all that for a thousand dollars more than the
>kurzweil.  It
>  has some really nice features, but I concluded that for me, I 
would
>not be
>  able to use the screen mag, an I already have a talking pda, 
and all I
>  really wanted was the scanning/reading functionality, so the 
knfb was
>what I
>  got.

>  I do wish the other company well though.  Thay have some nice 
ideas.
>  Another ting that concerned me though was that the MobileEyes 
reader
>was
>  only unveiled in Jan of this year.  I decided it was probably 
safest
>to go
>  with the one that has the initial bugs fixed.
>  Anyway, more later after I get it sset up.
>  Alas, I have to go in to the oral surgeon in a few hours to get 
a
>tooth
>  extracted, but maybe when that's done I can set up my reader to 
forget
>about
>  the pain...*frown*
>  Take care!*smile*
>  --le

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