Low Vision Devices

Product Name: HandHeld Magnifiers.
Description: We have found what we consider to be the BEST hand held Magnifiers on the market, for whoever doesn't know, a HandHeld Magnifier allows any low vision individual to read the small print on a Menu, the details in a contract, helps you at night with any text you want to read, as many come with light. Please review each and every website listed here for pricing information and details, but we anticipate you will love this, we are talking about less than 40 US$D per item!

Websites:
Magnifying Glasses
Vitalitymedical
Safe Pub
Indigo
Indigo (other page)
Opticsplanet
Epinions
Cleansweepsupply
Medhelp

Product Name: Audiobooks.
Description: We have found the largest websites to find your Audiobook and we hope you find anything you want here:

Websites:
Mediabay
Audiobook's webring
Talking books
Audible
Audiobooks
Amazon
Download audiobooks

Product Name: GPS (Global Positioning System).
We have found a good site that offers GPS products for visually impaired people and one that may or not suit your needs but may help a friend who travels with you teach you how to use any device. Websites:
Nanopac
Anywheremap
Universal low vision
Accessworld

Product Name: CellPhones
Description: Awesome websites where you will find cellphones/mobile phones suitable for your needs.
Websites:
Phonescomp
Phonescomp with another product
Nanopac Cellphones



Product Names: Merlin LCD Desktop Video Magnifier, Flipper Family for Near and Far Distance Viewing , Jordy System for reading books and watching movies, Acrobat Family for near distance, viewing, Max Family the portable digital magnifier that can be connected to any TV set or monitor.

Company: Enhanced Vision
Description: On this website you will find five interesting products.
Website: www.enhancedvision.com

Products: On this website you can find anything from devices that helps you drive a car to eyeglasses with light and glare control.
Company: The Low Vision Centers of Indiana
Website: www.eyeassociates.com


Products: Here you will find dozens of low vision products to buy, some expensive, some affordable.
Company: The Low Vision Store
Website: www.thelowvisionstore .com


Products: A lot of low vision products to buy, for all pockets.
Company: Independent Living Aids
Website: www.independentliving .com


Products: Many products to choose from including all kinds of magnifiers.
Company: RSB
Website: www.rsb .org


Products: Low vision/Braille products.
Company: Optelec
Website: www.optelec.com


Products:Another world-class web-store for low vision and braille devices.
Company: Maxiaids
Website: www.maxiaids.com


Products: A website that has some powerful links to companies that provide low vision products.
Website: www.lowvision.org


Product Name: GuidCane which is a hi-tech substitute of the guide dog or white cane .
Website: University of Michigan

Product Name: GuidCane which is a hi-tech substitute of the guide dog or white cane .
Website: University of Michigan

Product Name: Talking RX allows you to listen to the prescription bottles content… Pretty cool!.
Website: www.talkingrx.com

Product Name: Now You Can Find It.

Review: Consists of eight, mod-color, keychain-style disks and a locator device. Each disk's color matches a locator button; pushing a button makes the corresponding disk beep and blink its number (1-8), confirming your button push.
The promised range for the locator signal is 30 feet; in practice that's a good distance, reaching up or down stairs, diagonally, and through some walls or floors. But in a large or solid house you might need to wander a bit if you've left something in an out-of-the-way cranny.

The beep isn't a siren, so I found it helpful to quiet things down (TV volume, etc.) before signaling and searching. One of my cats was intrigued with the sound and light, though she was disinclined to help me locate things, really or experimentally misplaced.
Anticipating an even worse problem - misplacing it - the locator automatically beeps periodically if it's kept off its home base for more than five minutes. Brave souls can disable this helpful alert.

Among many nice touches is the Braille-labeling of locator buttons and disks. The kit includes a number of cute, stick-on, base-button label pictures showing objects - flashlight, pills, tools, PDA, TV remote control, umbrella, briefcase, toys, dolls, clothes, office supplies, and more. Also provided are blank stick-ons, a special fine-point pen, and exactly eight, double-sided, adhesive disks for fastening disks to objects. I've so far mated disks and objects with either the handy keychain-style attachments or rubber bands. I'd have liked spare adhesive disks (or Velcro!) to allow moving disks among objects.

The locator mount is ultra-flexible, allowing magnetic, adhesive, or woodscrew attachment to a refrigerator, file cabinet, shelf, or whatever.
The disks are presently too large for attaching to eyeglasses and such. I suggested to my wife that she mount one on each earpiece and claim they're earrings, but she said they'd make her look dorky, and she'd rather lose her glasses than look dorky. I'm sure that continued technological miniaturization will lead to rice-grain sized attachments for locating fashion-sensitive items like eyeglasses. (We're already hearing about this: Pets can be "chipped" with RFID, radio frequency identification devices. And the Food and Drug Administration has approved similar chips for storing personal health information.)

In the meantime, the disks can certainly attach to eyeglass cases - useful if the eyeglasses themselves are contained within. Until the rice grains arrive, the disks don't mate well with tiny objects, and my pockets are slightly crowded with one disk on a keychain and another on my voice-notes recorder. But I like the instant-retrieval ability they provide.
The disks are, of course, radio receivers. They're turned on by pulling a tab that lets the provided coin-cell battery make contact. A tiny screwdriver is included for the recommended yearly battery replacement. The locator needs two AAA batteries, which are not supplied.
The reasonable warranty covers defects in materials or workmanship but not misuse, loss or damage to batteries or removable parts. Some parts are indeed small, making the disks not suitable for use around very young children.
Another Sharper Image model provides four blink-only (no beep) disks. And other manufacturers offer different device features - for example, optimization for fastening to flat objects. Another technology (Dipo, Detector Individuel de Perte d'Objets) sends radio signals between a portable base unit and disks placed on items. When an item travels too far from the base unit, an audible or visual alarm triggers. Although designed for theft prevention, it can also help prevent leaving a wallet behind in a taxi or at a sales counter.

A session at the recent AARP convention discussed issues of memory/stress and multi-tasking. To avoid losing things, speakers emphasized being mindful and paying attention, putting things in the same places, and "look/snap/connect" for noticing and remembering where objects are placed.
My only regrets for Now You Can Find It are that this or any gizmo won't find my car in a big parking lot or locate my wife wandering in a giant shopping mall. I'll need different technologies to conquer those challenges.

Company: Sharper Image
Website: www.SharperImage.com
Model: SI676FUN (eight disks, blinks/beeps)
Price: $69.95
Model: SI667GRY (four disks, beeps only)
Price: $49.95

SOURCE: http://www.aarp.org/
NOTE: We at Lowvisionfriends added the link to the maker of this product so you can see there, if it is available and ask them any questions regarding such product.