This great ‘first ever warehouse video’ is from Andy Egizi and Mary Young. It’s all about a brand new mini portable projector they bought!
Hi Dick and Chad,
This is my first submission – a little rough but I pieced it together.
A few years ago I bought a Nebula outdoor projector (Nebula is a an Anker brand) which I use pretty regularly. This gadget could never replace the Nebula but it might be a nice option for travel option to pack away in an overnight bag. My wife also thought it would be a nice, portable way to project images for art projects.
I haven’t received the extras yet – I paid a little more for the wireless HDMI dongle and the early bird stretch goals included a portable screen. Hopefully they will add to the experience.
Love the show. I noted in the video that I’ve been listening since the daily days – long enough in the past that I have some Match Game cards in my collection of stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ygz6PFdxdg
Andy Egizi and Mary Young
You can find the product website here: https://aurzen.com/collections/zip-series-portable-projector/products/aurzen-zip-tri-fold-portable-projector
And the Kickstarter here https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aurzenzip/aurzen-zip-tri-fold-projector?ref=profile_created&category_id=28. I think it is only available on Kickstarter at this point.
See or hear this show: www.gizwiz.tv/episode/2034
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Email of the week:
Dear Dick and Chad,
This is a picture of a Kurzweil Reading Machine from the 70’s. I taught blind and vision impaired children in the Memphis City Schools for 45 years and back in the day this was considered advanced technology. As you can see, it was huge – but life changing for the kids who got to use it. I have included a paragraph about the device below the picture to help explain how it worked and help you understand how exciting this was for us in education. We thought we were so cool at the time to have access to this “miracle technology”! Ha ha! If only we knew then what was ahead of us!! (Most of the vision impaired people I know use their Phones to gain independence these days – also miracle devices!)
Big fan – keep on keeping on! VikiP
(By the way – the brain is on the left, the scanner is in the center, and the controls and speaker are on the right.)
Info from the Internet: “The Kurzweil Reading Machine was the first machine to convert printed text into synthetic speech. It was invented by Ray Kurzweil in 1975. The machine was the size of a small dishwasher and had its own built-in scanner and computer.
How it works
- The machine used a CCD flatbed scanner to capture printed text
- Optical character recognition (OCR) technology converted the text into digital form
- A text-to-speech synthesizer converted the digital text into speech”
