Looks like a good Make project...This would allow seniors (and others with impaired abstract thinking skills,) to dial phone numbers by just choosing a photo of someone and placing it in a holder next to the phone...you have to wonder if someone could hack this together out of, say, a CueCat, a free barcode font, and a photo printer... [via] Link.
Dialing from a picture frame
Looks like a good Make project...This would allow seniors (and others with impaired abstract thinking skills,) to dial phone numbers by just choosing a photo of someone and placing it in a holder next to the phone...you have to wonder if someone could hack this together out of, say, a CueCat, a free barcode font, and a photo printer... [via] Link.
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like that idea very much...RFIDs might be a better choice, though, especially if the target audience is kids, elderly ppl: easier to use, less error-prone. that, though, raises the challenges of finding easy to use, low-cost RFID technology...hmmm
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thank you give addresses .i want kinds of picture
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