Tuesday, June 21, 2011

The Milestone and Kapten Plus

You may recall the stuff I wrote about a year ago about some of the tech devices made for the blind while I was working at a place called the Visibility store. Like I said, some of them I owned, and some I didn't. Recently, I aquired 2 new devices that weren't in existance at the time. These are the Milestone and the Kapten Plus.
The Milestone is basically another blind friendly MP3 player. Like the Victor Streem, (a device I mentioned a year ago) you can store data for it on an SD card. However, unlike the streem, it also has a small amount of internal memory. Also unlike the streem, you don't have to separate everything in to separate folders for the device to know where it needs to go. Also, the Milestone can be a day planner and bar code reader, but I haven't bought the extra software needed for that.
The Kapten Plus is a new GPS system. It's around the size of the smaller Ipods people were buying at one point. It has to ability to use either buttons or voice commands, whatever you feel the most comfortable with. Also, you can mark a particular location, and it will remember it later. You can travel and have it just announce what you're passing, or you can enter in a particular route for it to follow. Also, it has the ability to find points of interests in your area such as eating establishments or other types of businesses.
Basically, these are handy little devices that I think many people can get great enjoyment and use out of. Also, the small size of these devices and everything they can do just goes to show how much technology is progressing.