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I was soo happy when I received this in the mail yesterday.

QuickLook Zoom portable magnifier

I received this from Voc Rehab. Since I can’t read without a CCTV anymore, my instructor recommended this for me, oh man this thing is cool!! its got

• 3x - 18x Digital Zoom Magnification Range
• Color, Black and White, Reverse video, blue on yellow, or yellow on blue displays
• High brightness, non-glare display
• Lightweight… only 8.8 ounces
• Up to 7 hours battery life, on a 3 hour charge
• 4.3 inch wide screen display

This thing will be perfect for reading the menu in a restaurant, labeling on prescription bottles, recipes in the kitchen, read the bills I don’t have the money to pay LOL, review mail order catalogs and TV program listings, all kinds of stuff.

CCTV stands for “Closed Circut Television”. What it basically does, is puts stuff written on paper onto a TV like screen, where the image can be magnified. My large CCTV magnifies up to 50x, but is unpractical to take with me, because its connected to a 17 inch CRT display, and is quite heavy, about 100 lbs I’d say, so I was glad when this portable model came in the mail.

The larger CCTV I use for reading textbooks for school. It has a tray underneath the display, with a camera, useful for reading textbooks because you can set your book on the tray and move it from left to right as your reading. This is the only way I was able to read anymore, so now that the portable model came in the mail, I won’t have to ask Susan, or my family, to read the menus and stuff to me anymore