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You're an electrical engineer? What exactly are you thinking / planning? Are you capable of some hardware / circuit work?

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Myself, I'm a highly skilled and innovative software engineer, and have been blind a little over 3 years. I have an idea in mind that could potentially be huge, both monetaraily and help millions of folks around the globe. I can do the software side, but it would require some hardware / circuit work as well. Maybe we can work together.

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Don't want to give out too much detail, but think something along the lines of this:

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Multiply the functionality by 100, and think about one sixth of the price. No idea how those guys get away with selling that Orcam MyEye thing for $5800, but that's ridiculous. The technology is available to make something FAR better, and sell it for about one sixth of the price, hence opening up the Asian and African markets as well.

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Ping me if interested.

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For soup? I shake it. Chicken noodle is very liquidified, and I can hear that. Mushroom and tomoato are more solidified / gelatin, and with them I just grab a can and it's a surprise each time I have soup, lol.

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For things like spcies though, I use a "Pen Friend" at:

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It's the shape of a pen, but has voice recording / play back functionality. It comes with sheets of QR code stickers, you put the stickers on whatever you want, then with the Pen Friend you can record a voice description to each QR code. When you want to know what something is, you touch the pen to the QR code, and it will repeat whatever voice description you recorded to that QR code.

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What we did is you know those little round stoppers you put on the edges of the inside of cupboards, so they don't slam shut? Round little gel type stoppers that stick to the inside of cupboards? We bought a bunch of those, and put the QR code stickers on them so they can be transplanted when a new spice bottle is bought, and put them on the top of each spice. When I'm cooking, I just go through the spice rack with the pen tapping the top of each spice bottle, and it will tell me what message I recorded for that bottle -- Thyme, Paprkia, Chilli Flakes, Garlic Powder, etc.

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Hope that helps.

Aerosols are my nemesis. I would prefer to avoid going out smelling bewitchingly of Eau de Furniture Polish.

I have enough vision that I can see what I'm holding when I get it out of the cabinet, but I can't see it in the dark cabinet, so in order to avoid wasting a lot of time taking things in and out, I just put things in designated places.

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I have enough vision to see colors of labels and usually end up grabbing my probe to reed the labels
If you are planing on creating something for this use as a suggestion maybe challenge yourself to make the best quality items for a reasonable price
It seams that every decant reeder it aid out there costs thousands of dollars and for people getting seven hundred a month to live off of SSI splurging on something like that just isn’t practical
Just an idea and thank you for thinking of the blind community

All my groceries are labels when I put them away with a simple magnetic strip that has the braille on it. Also I'm very organised when it comes to cupboard space with a raised line delineating each section and the age of the shelf labelled. I buy most 'store cupboard provisions' in bulk once a month so have a day labelling and sorting my food. If I need to check Seeing AI is a great app and I have an iPhone on the kitchen work surface to do this.

Generally, I keep my cans in a certain order so I know which is where but if I am not sure I use Seeing AI.

I use Seeing AI.

I’d recommend trying it before making something new.

I use Seeing AI as well. But majority of the time I have certain spots for everything and when I’m moving about in the kitchen, I know where everything is.

yes, I use Seeing Ai, an app on my phone that, among a variety of other things, scans bar codes. Other ways of doing this include a handheld barcode scanner which is not tied to a phone, and NFC tags you could place on things.

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I often have to label things myself, I still have yet to develop a perfect system. I have heard of the app Be My Eyes but have not used it much myself yet I know people who swear by it.

As some people said, I shake the container too. I also arrange my cans in an order. Soups and stuff go on the left, and ingredients in cans like tuna or tomato paste on the right. Those cans come in different shapes and sizes, like tomato paste is very small, miso paste is in a squishy packet and tuna is a long can. As for soup, I don't really care what I eat since I know it's a soup and I buy the flavours I like anyway, so it doesn't really bother me if I confuse it

Next question, what if you had something wearable that could perform the same function as the app. Would that be something that would interest you and what kind of price would you be willing to pay for a tech like that? There are similar techs out there already but they are selling ~5,800.00$. I know that I could develop it for 97% cheaper. Honestly not trying to get rich. Just really want to help the world out a little. If there’s any kind of tech out there that would make your life easier, what would it be. What’s a pain in the ass in your everyday world that I could help you guys with, within a reasonable scope?

It does help a lot. It seems to me that there is no affordable, applicable product that you can use to help you identify everyday products. No worries friend, I’m going to develop something for you guys that’ll help a lot with everyday tasks and for a super cheap price

Can you explain how it generally works?