I have a new gadget... and you don't have it! (yet)

fracmeister

fracmeister

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I am very impressed with these Swedish made "talking buttons" -- very high fidelity and the number of applications is mindboggling.

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They are not yet availabel in the US, but will be soon. I bet we could think of a dozen new uses.The VoiSec website :D :cool:
 
Brigade Quartermasters has a brief mention of the talking medicine bottles, being distributed in Afghanistan. (Catalog 75, following pg 66)
 
From one of their distributor's sites, price = £24 = approx $43.

That strikes me as a bit expensive for a 70 second recording.

Useful idea, though.
 
I think you will see better pricing as they ramp up in the US.


They are very high fidelity and have a lot of deployment options. We have them with the kids names and "to do " lists along with notes for us from them.


I am going to put them on displays of the company products and services for visitors to get a quick overview.

When you have one in hand the ideas just keep coming.
 
When you have one in hand the ideas just keep coming.
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I bet they do. Leave them around with a message: "Call 555-1234 and buy your own talking buttons!" -- a product that literally sells itself.

I imagine that a bit of a price drop could make them very useful. We will see real cheap knock-offs soon. After all, you can already buy only slightly larger but much less cool keychain or pen recorders.

Once upon a time I hated similar technology, and I am still somewhat ambivalent about its uses. Years ago, some genius marketed talking greeting cards. When Christmas came around, they morphed into cheery HO-HO-HO MERRY CHRISTMAS ALL YOU LITTLE ELVES JINGLE BELLS JINGLE BELLS JINGLE ALL YOUR PAY ... and so on ... and when you work in a post office and every time you pick up or sort one of these cards it sets it off, STFU ALREADY! :rolleyes:
 
We have them with the kids names and "to do " lists along with notes for us from them.
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Great. Another reason why people don't have to learn to read. Texas Instruments recently recalled over 100,000 calculators because a middle school student discovered that the decimal-to-fraction conversion function that was supposed to have been removed (because these students must know how to do the conversion manually) was actually still there and accessible with a two-button combination. Apparently, it did not occur to anyone to simply make the kids take a test with no calculator at all. That might bruise their self-esteem.
 
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