iPhone app helps the blind ID currency

I always thought most americans printed their own money at home on their scanners and ink jet printers!!

"Identifying different denominations of dollar bills has long been a problem for the sight-impaired in the US."

Actually the dollar ($1) is the denominations of a dollar bill; ie. the different denominations are $1, $5, $10, $20, etc.

I believe you meant to say - "Identifying different denominations of US currency has long been..."

Just saying...

:)

Ron
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You breezed right by a better free app that not only recognized currency, but also a can of Pepsi (as opposed to my wife's Sprite),

oMoby by IQ Engines
(http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/omoby/id353867169)
is all that and more.

I showed it my ten-year-old desk-lamp thinking It would never find it in oMoby's data base and I was right!

But even though it didn't find the make and model, it still reported is as being a 'desk lamp'.

Close enough for me!

Yes, always been amazed that the US authorities have been allowed to do this.
They should at the very minimum be forced to print braille on the bills using thermographic inks. Come on blind people, sue the US government!

UK banknotes do not have braille for the partially sighted / blind. They have raised ink as a security measure, but that ink is the 'Bank Of England' text.

For blind people, they are all different sizes, and for partially sighted people, they are all different colours, £5 blue, £10 orange, £20 purple and £50 red. There is an especially dense block of colour (except for the £20 which is dense anyway) to assist partially sighted people.

It amazes me that US $ are all the same colour and size

I would think sight-impaired people would have more trouble using a touch-screen iPhone than using money. IRONY?

UK notes have Braille, I believe. Haven't got one to hand but I remember this being a big thing when it was introduced - quite some time ago.