Penfriend 3

PENfriend3 has been awarded "The Greatest of All Time" product for Blind and Visually Impaired People. 
Please click the following link which gives of the judge's description. 
Sam Watkins from The Blind Life

PENfriend3 enables you to record your own audio stickers for a wide range of items in and around the home, at school, and on the way to work. To identify an item, touch the sticker with PENfriend and it will play back your voice recording! Stickers can be re-used and can play back up to 60 minutes of content. 

• "Get started" instructions are spoken and are accessed through the tactile, talking Instruction cards. Audio instructions for use on Instruction cards are in the following languages with others to come: 
  English/ Arabic/  Australian English/ French/ German/ Spanish/ Italian/ Latvian. You can download free from the web and tap the Instruction card and listen to what to you need to do! No more reading minute text and being sound, you can explain at length without limitations of paper space. Another great PENfriend innovation thinking! 
  watch this brief video. 
• New languages being added are:
  Portuguese (Brazilian)/ Portuguese (European)/ Hindi/ Bengali/ Marathi/ Tamil/ 
• Please let us know if you wish audio in any other language (possible with orders over 50 units)
• PENfriend has a huge library of ancillary products - see products on this site.
• This is what you get when you open the box: PENfriend, Audio Instruction Card with examples of uses in practice, 100 tactile talking stickers to get started straightaway, a safety lanyard, free download to the backup and restore software on Windows, access to 25000 RNIB talking books, doubles up as an MP3 player, a talking keyring fob.
• Switch on PENfriend and touch the instruction hotspot for detailed explanations.
• On the reverse of the card are audio explanations with 15 uses people have found.
• You can record new messages onto any sticker to reuse them as often as you like
• Supplied with 105 tactile recordable stickers; each can hold a message, or music, up to one hour long. 
• 16GB internal memory stores 250 hours of recordings. Memory is expandable to 32GB. 
• Tactile, high-contrast operating buttons and dedicated power button.
• PENfriend is of no use to thieves so listen to your favorite talking books when you go out and about.
• There are over 1000 unique, reusable audio-stickers, so no shortage for labelling your CD collection, birdbooks, food items, etc. Each label has a unique number to avoid duplication.
• PENfriend3 can store one audio book at a time. Download from the RNIB site of Daisy Books, plenty to choose from.

Buy PENfriend from this site or from the RNIB site or other shops for VIs.