Re: replace phone key board with picture buttone - learning disability project

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martshan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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>Can anyone help me on this?
>I'm trying to design a simple phone system for a group of adults with
>learning disabilities. We need to replace standard phone keypads with
>bigger keypads that will take picture stickers so that, say, you push
>the button with a car on it to dial out for a taxi. Plus each button
>should default to memory dial, so that you can only choose one of 10
>pre-programmed useful numbers.
>Additionally, it would be useful if there was someway of extending the
>keypad of a mobile phone (bluetooth device?) so that they could have
>similar system for a mobile phone.
>You could possibly do this simply by having a keypad device that
>emitted the various dial tones for the niumbers. Can you buy such a
>device anywhere?
>(I need something that doesn't imvolve any soldering, because my
>soldeing is rubbish).

This isn't exactly what you're looking for, but it does have picture
buttons for dialing 9 programmed numbers. I don't see any way to disable
the standard number buttons, though.

http://www.hearmore.com/store/prodView.asp?idproduct=258&idstore=2&category=By_Manufacturer&product=Ameriphone_P-300_Amplified_Photo_Phone

Regards,
Eric