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Friends of Sendero Cool Products list

Mike May and friends of Sendero have tried one of the following products and found them to be useful or entriguing. Please do not call Sendero for more information or support regarding these products. If you have feedback on a product and wish it to be added or deleted from this page, email GPS@SenderoGroup.com Again, Sendero does not endorse or support these products.

• SD/MMC CF adapter. Allows you to plug an SD, SM, MS or MMC card into a BrailleNote PK's compact flash slot Cost: $22 .
• Motorola HF820 hands-free Bluetooth speaker. This unit is approximately 3 inches high by 2 inches wide and resembles a small cell phone with belt clip. Although it is intended for use as a hands-free speaker phone for the car, it works as a wireless speaker for the BrailleNote if you have the appropriate Bluetooth audio dongle/adapter on the BrailleNote. Cost: $62, mWave part number: 3755916.
• Talking Thermostat: a Playback report on the talking thermostat. Visit Talking Thermostat website
• iCombi AG12 Bluetooth dongle is about 1 inch square and a half an inch thick. It has a short coily cord with an l-shaped audio jack. It has a charging port and a two position slide switch for off and on. It will provide a connection with most Bluetooth headphones including stereo.
• Oakley O Rokr sunglasses (can be ordered from Sendero, call 888-757-6810 to order) are classy looking with Bluetooth ear pieces which can fit snugly in the ear or can be swiveled to be close but not obscuring hearing. They connect to a phone or to an audio dongle for use with an audio device like the BrailleNote, Braille Sense or Pac Mate or with an audio ATM for that matter.

Mike May attends many general market conferences including the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) since 1984. Mike May ocasionally does product reports for Playback Magazine. MP3 versions of these files are available for download. Links to other products Mike finds interesting or particularly useful are also provided below.

• Mike's Playback report on CES 2008: 30 minutes.
• Mike's Playback report on CES 2007.
• Mike's Playback report on CES 2006.
• Mike's Playback report on CES 2005.
• Mike's Playback report on CES 2004.
• Mike's Playback report on CES 2003.

Playback Magazine, previously hosted by Ed Potter.

Other Cool Services

Access Braille travel and tourism information on TravelBraille.com. These Braille Readable-only Files (BRF) are excerpted from popular published guidebooks (such as Lonely Planet and Fodor's), brochures, Tourism Authority websites, and newspaper travel sections such as The New York Times. Braille files available include Tibet, Peru, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Belize, Kenya, Tasmania, Greece, Italy, the City of Rome, Thailand, and an introduction to the World Heritage program.

For assistance in connecting audio and video equipment in the Sacramento area, contact Phelita at Hook-Up Connection 916 486-4619. $60 per hour. She is very knowledgeable and works nicely with blind folks.

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