There is no way that I would use a Pen Friend to label decks of playing
cards or even a simple game of Monopoly. It would take so blasted long to
get the necessary info from Monopoly property deeds, the money would have to
be heard, the Chance and Community Chest cards would have to be heard.
During a game of Pinochle, people would be waiting for me to hear my cards.
These are two examples where cards with braille on them would be so much
faster and more convenient! Plus, what do you do if your Pen Friend runs
out of storage space? The Pen friend is also not random access. You hear
the whole message, however lengthy it is. While it is fairly inexpensive,
it has drawbacks. For card games, braille on the cards is the way to go.
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From: "dark" <d...@xgam.org>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 7:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] the cost of documentation - Re:
Somepracticalquestionsreguarding the Monopoly game
Hi Tom.
This is why I said braille display technology needs to catch up, in both
cost and utility, since at the moment speech alternatives are just proving
both cheaper and equally as functional.
Up until the penfriend I'd have still said braille was absolutely
necessary for labels on things, now that is not the case, ---- indeed from
a purely practical matter it's actually much easier to penfriend label
stuff than it is to do in braille since you don't need half the space, can
use a sticker approximately the size of a keybaord key which can hold all
the information you want, and don't have to muck about doing cut outs of
labels.
Getting back to games, you could even theoretically use penfriend labels
on cards or on a board, since the penfriend itself has a headphone socket
albeit this would still probably be a trifle tortuous and would be a trade
off between providing all the information on the label, (it'd be very easy
to say reccord the hole text of a game of life square for example), and
having instant access to a short note by finger rather than needing to
muck about pointing a sensor.
Of course, there are specialized uses for braille, I remember for example
you mentioning reading braille stories to your son, not to mention the
needs of deaf/blind people, but this is just another reason for braille to
progress since if the majority of the uses of braille are superseeded by
easy, lower cost alternatives, then braille will go the same way as mourse
code, stenography, line type setting, ie, be reduced just to one or two
specialist uses.
Personally I'd love to see full screen tactile and braille displays, a
thing we do have the technology and expertees for, but which, though it's
been on the cards for at least the last 15 years nobody seems to have
actually bothered developing into a serious peice of hardware, ---- indeed
braille display and printing technology hasn't moved on since the mid
90's.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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