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>>Wade: Hi, I'm Wade Wingler with the INDATA Project at Easter Seals Crossroads in Indiana
and here's your tech tip. >>Tom: Hi, I'm Tom Blackman with EYE Can See
Incorporated here in Indiana. Today, we're going to talk about the Freedom Scientific
Topaz high definition, low-vision, reading/writing machine. The Topaz is here with me in front
of us here. The Topaz comes with four different screen sizes, it has a 24-inch wide screen,
22, 20, 17 and then it also comes with just the camera unit only and you provide your
own monitor. The controls are very easy to use, with a high-definition unit, which is
what we have here, at the lower levels of magnification and at the very highest levels
of magnification you've got a very nice clear image. You can also get the entire page on
there. So for those of you who require very small amounts of magnification the images
are very sharp. It will go up to a very large size, we'll go up here to size 16, which is
about 75x or 80x magnification. We have different modes, there is a bright mode, a reverse mode,
then you have a choice of many different foregrounds and background color combinations, you can
press the button here and that will give you a, that'll freeze the image, it'll save the
image on the screen and then you touch it again and it's back to normal mode. You've
got the brightness/contrast setting here on the left, so the knobs are very big and color-coded.
The blue button on the right changes the modes. You've got the X/Y table that moves left and
right, forward and back, with a manual lock and the lane markers are controlled underneath
here, where you can have double lines or single line. You can also have windowing or shawdowing,
so you have those features. And then you can also connect this to a computer and by touching
the center button here on the mode selector, touch that and the image that's on the computer
behind us, gets displayed in either split screen mode or the entire screen can be displayed
from the computer. Here we have the CCTV image at the bottom and the computer image at the
top. If you're using low vision magnification software like Magic we can enlarge that as
well. A software product called "Gem," comes with this from Freedom Scientific and Gem
allows you to have a very powerful feature. You can save your images that you're looking
at on your CCTV camera, into the computer and obviously retrieve those and do anything
you want with those images. You can control the CCTV buttons here with keystrokes on the
computer and then finally the split screen mode which you are seeing here is available
to you. So with Gem software, which is an optional product, you can save images and
control it from the keyboard. So the Topaz comes with Topaz high-definition, Topaz XL
and then Topaz LCD, the three all have different pricing and so that's the information on the
Topaz. >>Wade: So that's your tech tip for this week.
I'm Wade Wingler with the INDATA Project at Easter Seals Crossroads, in Indiana.