Each year s tour of the LS&S booth offers a massive information dump on the new and incredible products making their public debut. Jason Neeland, Senior Account Manager for LS&S, brings J.J. along on a closer look at a few of the newest offerings. The pair discuss a high tech pill bottle called the I Remember, the FDK Arm Blood Pressure Unit, an Atomic Talking Keychain, a new Adjustable Liquid Level Indicator, the newly revised Ti 30XS Talking Scientific Calculator and you will just have to investigate what exactly is the mysterious U.F.O. hovering over CSUN. But that s not all, to find out what else is available, visit the LS&S website
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Now, here’s J.J. Meddaugh.
J.J. MEDDAUGH: Exhibit Hall, CSUN 2019. Thrilled to welcome back Jason Neeland from LS&S, who’s going to do, once again, a nice, rapid-fire of some of the many awesome things in the LS&S catalog.
Jason, welcome back to the podcast.
JASON NEELAND: J.J., thank you so much for having me. I appreciate it. You do stop by and visit us every year. Lssproducts.com is our website. If you use CSUN 19, you will have free shipping on any of our products for 60 days.
Today, I’m going to go ahead and just review a few products that we’ve launched at this show. First is a medication box. And unlike others, it has very deep shelves. It is able to be taken with you. It has four compartments for morning, noon, evening, bed. But more importantly, it’s got the deep containers so that you can actually carry the meds you need, unlike a lot of the others which are just too small to go ahead and use.
JM: There are also four Braille numbers -- 1, 2, 3, 4 – across it as well.
JN: Exactly. And this is a seven-day unit, so it comes with all seven days on the front of it. And it is simple, it is inexpensive, and it’s brand new on our website. Actually, you’ll have to look at New Products on the website to find it.
JM: Oh. I see. So each day comes out. There are –
JN: Yes. Each day – each seven days of the week comes out, Sunday through Saturday, and it just allows you to have a little more medication management.
And we do have another new product that you may or may not know about. It is called the iRemember. And the iRemember's something very unique. It is also a pill dispenser that talks.
: Mouth open. 30. Enable – go.
JN: All right. There’s also a side button on the unit, but I’m going to explain it, and then I’ll give you a little more information on how it works. I do want you to hold it in your hand. It’s got seven rings that go down the bottom of it. And as you unscrew any of the rings -- and right now, J.J. has about four days’ worth of medication in his hands – when you open it, it records your GPS location, time, and date of when the medication was opened and presumably taken. And it – there is an app so that friends and family can manage to make sure that people are taking their medications –
JM: Wow.
JN: I know. Little big brotherrish, but hey. It’s forty-nine ninety-five. It’s called the iRemember.
JM: Is the app accessible?
JN: Yes. Fully accessible. And it’s an expensive pill bottle, yes. But you can’t put a price on knowing if your mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, brother, sister, friend are taking their medications at the right time, on the right day. You can program it to alert you to different times to take these medications. And each pill piece -- there are three large slots with a divider for morning, afternoon, and evening. And again, it’s called the iRemember for forty-nine ninety-five. It is on our website under New Products.
The next product that we’ve launched at this show is called the FDK Arm Blood Pressure Unit. And this unit is designed to give you your systolic, diastolic, along with your heart rate, and it has memory for two users on the same piece. I’m going to go ahead and just turn it on real quick so you can hear the voice quality.
JM: Okay.
JN: Did it talk?
JM: No. We’ll -- do it again.
JN: All right. Hold on.
COMPUTERIZED VOICE: Stay still and do not talk until the measurement is complete.
JN: Okay. So I did – that just hit the Start button, so it was going to go ahead and keep talking. That’s the blood pressure unit.
Next, I’m going to hold in your hand or provide to you – all right. Now, what J.J. Has in his hand, before he hits the magic buttons -- because I – if he’s anything like me, I push buttons before I even know what it is. This is the Atomic talking keychain for twenty-two ninety-five. And like all other Atomic products, it does update for daylight saving times. You set your time zone, and bang. Overnight, it’s set.
JM: There’s – is it three small buttons there and one bigger one? Is that what I’m seeing?
JN: No. Three small buttons, and that’s the – you can use a quarter to change out the watch battery. So it’s fully accessible for anyone to change out the battery on the unit.
Go ahead and push the button. Let them hear it.
JM: And there’s a big button on the other side. Okay.
COMPUTERIZED VOICE: Today is Friday, March 15, year two thousand and nineteen.
JM: There’s the date.
COMPUTERIZED VOICE: Alarm time is 12 o’clock a.m. USA time not updated. The time is 4:23 p.m.
JN: Did you push the buttons on the back, J.J?
JM: I might have.
JN: Yeah. It’s okay. We all know how talking products work. There’s a mode, there’s a set, hours, minutes, dates, time. But this one’s Atomic, so set the date, you’re good to go.
Next, I’m going to hold in your hand, and before you start playing with it – all right? We all know about liquid level indicators. But this one was designed different. And the reason I say that is we all know you hang a liquid level indicator on the side of a coffee cup, you fill it up so you’re not burning your finger, it gives you a beep or it vibrates to let you know where you’re at. So this one is different because – J.J., on the back on the three metal pins – because it does have two levels of indication. I’m going to go ahead and just use your finger. And you feel how that slides up and down?
JM: Yup.
JN: Some of us like a cup of coffee that goes right to the rim; right?
JM: Yes.
JN: Others like to have a half inch, three quarters of an inch so that they can walk with it and not spill it all over the floor. So that is an adjustable liquid level indicator. Nobody else has it. Brand new.
JM: How much is that one?
JN: Great question. It’s going to be on our website. I don’t know.
JM: Pretty cheap though, I would assume.
JN: It’s going to be – it’s going to be 10, 15, 20 dollars. I’m not a hundred percent sure right now. But here’s the other key feature. Feel that little lip right there with your thumb?
JM: Yup.
JN: I’m going to go ahead and just unhook it. It has a super simple, super easy battery replacement. It has a CR2032, and then you slide it back up, it clicks, and you’re back in business with your liquid level indicator.
JM: CR32 is just those little coin cell batteries, for those who might not be familiar. Very simple.
JN: Yes. Yes. And number three, it actually has a magnet built in to help make sure that this adjustable piece in the back stays where it needs to be. And you can also hang it right on the fridge.
JM: All right.
JN: Cool. That’s called the new Liquid Level Indicator from LS&S.
Next, from our friends at Orbit research.
JM: Oh.
JN: The TI-36, for those of you who are not aware, is now discontinued by Texas Instruments. It is no longer available, so manuals, textbooks, all that good stuff will be changing. Texas Instruments, being a large company -- most companies go up with model numbers. So the TI-36 is now called the TI-30XS, and it is brand new. It is very well-constructed. It comes with a slide cover and a clip cover. The sound quality is fantastic. It has good volume control.
JM: Let’s see if we can make it make noise.
COMPUTERIZED VOICE: 7. Inverse. Power.
JN: All right. It’s really loud in here.
JM: Yup.
JN: Let me take the back cover off.
COMPUTERIZED VOICE: Data menu. Data menu. Cosine. Open. Divide. Probability menu. Cosine. Invalid key. Device.
JM: There we go. Okay.
JN: All right.
JM: It’s a very clear voice.
JN: Yeah. Good sound quality. There is a vent on the slide case to allow the sound to come out, but the ambient noise here is a little overwhelming.
Okay. Next –
JM: And that is a scientific calculator, for those who might not be familiar.
JN: Yes. Exactly. Now, they also launched the TI-74 graphing talking calculator with it. Now, APH has had it for a long time, but LS&S has now been given the ability to distribute this nationwide. And both the TI-74 Graphing and the TI-30 are available on the LS&S website.
Next is another product I’m going to go ahead and let you hold in your hand. Best thing to do, to give you a little reference point on what you have in your hand, is if anybody’s familiar with the C-Pen, the C-Pen is not for the blind. It’s meant for low-vision purposes, but it does allow you to, if you are – have the ability to take notes or highlight, it allows you to drag it over a series of text, it’ll transmit it through Bluetooth to your phone, and then you’ll hear the text through your phone. And it also saves it as a document so that if you do many, many scans, it’ll save it as a document.
This is called the Scanmarker Air, and I don’t know how much it is. Again, we just launched it at this show, and it is on the LS&S website.
Now, we’ve got the really special product I wanted to talk to you about.
JM: Oh.
JN: This is called the UFO. I know. It’s not the unidentified flying object, but basically, it is a small, round – it looks like a small hockey puck, but it’s only about 2 inches wide in its circumference.
JM: Yeah. A little smaller than a hockey puck even. It’s very –
JN: Yeah. I mean, I’m – what would you – like a – I’m thinking like a little munchkin.
JM: Yeah.
JN: Like a donut hole.
JM: It’s pretty –
JN: Yeah.
JM: A donut hole. There you go.
JN: Donut hole. Yeah. Think about a donut whole, kind of squished, but it actually looks like a flying saucer. It’s got one button on it, but really what that does is not as important as the app on your phone. It’s designed for three primary functions: Number one, let’s say, for example, you have a blind parent going to a store. You can put this UFO in their backpack, in their pocket, and you can set – and of course, all VoiceOver, very blind friendly. That if a child goes within 10 feet, 20 feet, 50 feet, whatever you’d like away from you, the UFO makes a screeching noise, and then you’re also notified on your phone. So that allows you – let’s say you have a briefcase, a backpack – J.J. Right now –
JM: Yeah>
JN: -- is wearing a really cool backpack. Let’s say he sets it down while he’s getting a cup of coffee, walks away, it’s going to alert J.J., and it’s going to scream from his backpack so he has an audio cue on where it needs – where he needs to go to pick it up. That’s the first thing that it can do.
The second thing that it can do is that it has the ability of being a waypoint device. So let’s say that you are – you know, for orientation and mobility purposes, you want to put these as markers in a room. As you get within the distance of it, it’ll start to beep consecutively to help you find different locations –
JM: Okay.
JN: -- in an area. Okay? So like a beacon, as they call it.
And then, for those of – that might need it to be even more simple than that, you can take one of these, put it anywhere you want inside of a house, and – let’s say that you have an office in your house and your wife, girlfriend, boyfriend, roommate, whatever it might be, you want to leave them a note and they have this app on their phone, when they walk in the house, their phone’s going to alert them that they have a message from you when you get in proximity of the UFO.
JM: Okay.
JN: So it allows someone to retrieve a message just by walking in the room. That is the UFO. They’re selling through LS&S, and I don’t think anybody else has them right now. They’re ninety-nine ninety-five here at CSUN, and they are not on our website, but they will be soon.
And thank you, my name is Jason Neeland with LS&S.
JM: Thank you, Jason. Could you give your website?
JN: www.lssproducts.com. If you mention CSUN 19, for 60 days, we’ll give you free shipping and handling on your order.
JM: Thank you so much. It’s always been a pleasure.
JN: Thanks J.J.
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Joe Steinkamp is no stranger to the world of technology, having been a user of video magnification and blindness related electronic devices since 1979. Joe has worked in radio, retail management and Vocational Rehabilitation for blind and low vision individuals in Texas. He has been writing about the A.T. Industry for 15 years and podcasting about it for almost a decade.
