{"id":1820,"date":"2010-01-08T12:08:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T12:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=1820"},"modified":"2010-01-08T12:08:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T12:08:01","slug":"visually-impaired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=1820","title":{"rendered":"Visually Impaired"},"content":{"rendered":"

My dad is suffering from macular degeneration<\/a>, and over the last few years has been finding it harder and harder to read newspapers. He has been using a large magnifying glass until lately, but even that isn’t working too well now as you can imagine.<\/p>\n

I’m kicking myself for not having thought that something like this exists sooner – but he has been given a Bierley Monomouse to try out. Bierley’s own website is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Bierley Monomouse<\/p><\/div>\n

It is basically shaped like a computer mouse (but bigger), and consists of a camera and LED illumination in the housing, and you plug it into the A\/V socket on your TV. It then displays a magnified image of the newspaper or magazine (or letter, etc.) as you sweep over it.<\/p>\n

I have to be honest and say that for something so simple, it is rather incredible. I just wish I’d have though of this with all the cameras I’ve been playing with over the last few years. It is a simple – but brilliant – idea.<\/p>\n

The only suggestion I would have is that the TV version could do with a zoom control – but obviously that would put the price up from the very reasonable \u00a389.00 for the black & white version. There is a colour one, too (\u00a3129.00) and various ones for your PC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My dad is suffering from macular degeneration, and over the last few years has been finding it harder and harder to read newspapers. He has been using a large magnifying glass until lately, but even that isn’t working too well now as you can imagine. I’m kicking myself for not having thought that something like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latestposts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}