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The Coast Duo is a nifty portable magnifying camera by Irie AT. It is designed to be plugged into your PC, Chromebook or iPad via USB-C. Its various modes make it ideal for any distance, but it excels at document reading on account of its optical and digital zoom as well as various settings which can increase clarity and decrease ghosting.   There is a lot to cover, but our Assistive Technology Specialist: Luke is here to bring everyone up to speed on this exciting new camera from Irie AT!   0:00 Start 0:10 USB-C Connection, Software App, Tripod Stand, 2:16 Troubleshooting Modes based on Flipped Images 3:22 Live Panning, Optical and Digital Zoom,  4:33 Features: 10x Zoom, Contrast, Flip between device camera instead 5:18 Framerate Customization, Low Light Situation demands a Lower Frame Rate,  7:05 Distance Viewing, Flatten via dragging corners to adjust for any skewed perspective  8:20 Wrap Up Review, Take away Thoughts,   We at Vision Forward would be happy to answer any questions that you still have about the Coast Duo and all of Irie AT's other products down in the comments!  Contact Vision Forward Association:  Call us: (414-615-0103)  Email us: infocus@vision-forward.org  Visit us online: https://www.vision-forward.org   Online Store: https://www.vision-forward.org/store  Vision Forward's Tech Connect continues to bring you the information you need to make the most out of your devices. Our experts know there are many factors to consider, so if you have any follow up questions please post them in the comments and we will help you find the assistive tech that's best for you.    Want more Tech Connect in your life? Try us Live! Be sure to join us for the upcoming YouTube Live! show on July 31st at 11am CST.   Looking for the full playlist? https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdZ61dAGaL_k3I-_LcTPozan9upCqY8Yc   Catch-up with our most recent Tech Connect Livestreams!   Accessibyte Studio App with Joe from Accessibyte! https://www.youtube.com/live/C491is1cRuc  Can Luke Stump Cory? First Look at iOS 26 with VoiceOver! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72I7ZPn1LzY  Apple's WWDC with Carrie Morales from Carrie on Accessibility!  https://www.youtube.com/live/vR4vMPV0yYI  Odyssey By HumanWare with Rachel Ramos! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pnnkDtGWTY   Hable Easy with Freek van Welsenis!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIUdBKLg2mU   Sign up for free on our LMS and you'll get access to full webinars eligible for free on demand ACVREP credits! https://techconnect.vision-forward.org/login/index.php   Webinar Teaser: "Dictation And Screen Reader use in Windows 11" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad9_4pCvYYs   #assistivetechnology #lowvision #OpticalCharacterRecognition #apple #technology #blindness #blindtech #lowvision #vision #sightloss #blind #smartwatch #accessibility #tipsandtricks #blindtech #lowvision #iphone #applevisionpro #apple #magnifier #assistivetechnology #CCTV #free #audiodescription  #accesible #accessibility #magnifcation  #Blind #

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00:00So today we're going to be taking a look at the Coast Duo. This is a new camera from

00:05iRI and it's a kind of document camera type of thing like the MagnaLink S.

00:09We can connect it to multiple devices including Windows PC, the Chromebook and iPad which is nice

00:16and so it has USB-C connector that's actually baked in to the camera. If it wasn't stuck here we go.

00:23It also comes with an extender and also a USB-C to USB-A adapter so depending on what your device

00:31has available you can plug it in many different ways. There is software which you would use to

00:36control the camera. A couple of interesting things about this camera currently I have it in the base

00:43which if I take it out here we'll be able to kind of take a look at that and so this is the base and

00:49this will give you a nice weighted base to hold the camera but what if we don't want to use the

00:54base? Well that's okay because the camera's got its own tripod and so we can go ahead and fold out

00:59the tripod and use it on the tripod instead. I mean this is already pretty cool but wait there's more.

01:06We can actually interchange a little piece here between the base and a table clamp and so if you

01:14want to clamp it onto your table I should have really adjusted this to be the right size before we

01:19started filming but we'll just simulate this so we can go ahead and slide the camera on and it can

01:24be clamped onto the table. So some really neat ways of changing this. There's still more though because

01:30if I apply some pressure to the top the head will go down and if I pull, I pulled a little bit too hard

01:38there, the head will go up so it's on a telescopic neck and you can get it adjusted exactly at the height

01:45that you need in order to see your document or to look into the distance because it can do distance

01:50as well as near magnification. Very cool stuff indeed and I haven't seen a design quite like it and I

01:57also have to mention extremely lightweight so if you're looking for something to carry around between

02:02lectures or between meetings then this could definitely be the device for you. But why don't

02:07we jump in and take a look at what it can do? Now one thing that really confused me when we got the

02:19Coast Duo is the fact that there are three different modes and one is used for close-up and one is used

02:25for the distance and one is a mirror view. Now the reason that this confused me is because I kind of

02:31ignored it and the result of that was I was in the distance mode and I didn't realize and I was using

02:37it to look at things close up and the things that I was looking at close up were upside down and the

02:43button to flip them around was grayed out. I wasn't able to use it. Now this is normal behavior when you're

02:49in the distance mode you cannot rotate the image but I didn't realize that these different modes existed

02:54and therefore I just thought there was a problem with the camera because my document was upside down.

02:59Turns out that I was the one at fault and so if you need to if you are looking into the distance or

03:06looking up close you need to make sure you are in the appropriate mode so that you can have the

03:11image the right way around. So just something to bear in mind maybe it was just me who didn't realize

03:15this but just in case it's you as well then now you know what the problem is.

03:22So one of the cool things we can do with the Coast Duo is pan around using the touch screen of our

03:26device. Now you can connect this device to Windows PC to an iPad and to a Chromebook and you might not

03:32necessarily have a touch screen depending on how you've got it connected. We have it connected to

03:36an iPad over USB-C and an iPad it turns out has a good touch screen. So there's a couple of ways that

03:42we can magnify and one way will allow us to pan around as well. If we do optical magnification using

03:48the buttons on the camera then that's not going to help us pan around. It will zoom in and we can move the

03:53document itself but we're not going to be using the touch screen to pan around there necessarily.

03:57However we can also do digital zoom using pinch zoom on the tablet and if we do that then we can pan

04:04around and so we could you know instead of having to move the document we can just move our finger on

04:09the screen and that might be a nicer way for us to read. Now we can combine optical and digital

04:14magnification and so theoretically the optical should give you better quality especially at those higher

04:20magnifications so you can kind of combine those and get stuff exactly how you want it in terms of

04:25clarity but also the ability to pan around using the screen. Very nice stuff.

04:33So the Coaster Duo does have a number of features the types of things that you would expect including

04:3810x optical zoom which is accessed from the camera itself as well as digital zoom which we can

04:44utilize using pinch zoom and then we can kind of pan around. We have various different color modes to choose

04:49from. We can adjust contrast, we can actually flip the camera so we're looking through the iPad camera

04:55rather than the Coaster Duo itself and we can do a freeze image, we can record video, we can save

05:01pictures. So the same type of things that we have seen with devices of this ilk in the past but there

05:06are a couple of features which make this unique that I really like so let's go ahead and take a look at

05:12what those do. So the first of the unique features that I really like is the ability to change the

05:19frame rate of the camera and this does affect how well it works in different lighting conditions

05:24basically if we have it set to work in low light conditions then the frame rate has to be lower but if

05:30we are in good lighting conditions we can increase the frame rate of the camera and that helps us with

05:35ghosting issues. Now these options are accessible from a menu and if everything's working properly

05:42then that will be to the far right. At the top of the menu we have the kind of lowest frame rate but it

05:47will give us the best operation in low light conditions so I'm going to go ahead and hit that

05:52one and we will see the frame rate issue here if I move my hand underneath there's a lot of ghosting and

05:58it's very blurry and this is what the low frame rate results in this kind of blur when we are you know

06:03moving quickly underneath this will also make a difference if we're in a high contrast mode let's

06:08say and if we move the document from left to right and it kind of goes super blurry and very kind of

06:13choppy but if you are in a low light condition maybe the sacrifice is worth making because you can

06:19actually see the document even in the low light and yeah the frame is not ideal but you know it's a

06:23compromise. Now if we change and we'll go up to 60 frames per second here this would be for bright

06:28conditions which we have in the studio here very nice lighting conditions this is going to give us the best

06:33frame rate and therefore the least ghosting so again we're moving this you know high contrast

06:38white or black text underneath here and as we move it around no issues at all doesn't really blur out

06:43or anything like that which is really nice and if I just change out of there go back to regular color

06:48if I move my hand quickly underneath we're getting no ghosting at all we're having no issues there

06:53seeing a fast moving object so that's a really unique feature to this and I like it a lot it gives you

06:58a lot of flexibility in terms of using this camera in different scenarios and for looking at different

07:02types of things. So one of the other unique features about the Coast Duo is the ability

07:09to look into the distance and to correct for the angle of things that we are looking at now in order

07:13to do this I have spun the iPad back around and the controls are the right way around now and that's

07:18because when we're looking into the distance we don't have the same issues with things being upside

07:22down so everything is the right way around and I'm looking at a document in the distance and I can see

07:27the document there we can zoom in on it and stuff like that but it is a little bit skew if it's a

07:32little bit lopsided compared to us because it's over to the right side compared to where we are

07:38so let's see if we can correct for that I'm going to hit one of the buttons on the screen and it will

07:42bring up a grid and I can move the grid into position and we want to kind of outline the boundaries

07:48of the thing that we're looking at in the distance once we've done that we'll hit the check mark

07:52and now it looks like we are looking at the document straight on which is really super clever

07:57I can still magnify it I can still kind of have a you know have a look around and stuff like that

08:04and it just looks like we're looking at it straight on so really clever rather than having to be right

08:07in front of the teacher or right in front of the presenter you know at work or whatever

08:11we can be at an angle and correct for that with the software

08:17okay so that was the Coast Duo and as we saw it has a lot of unique and cool things about it

08:21the design is really fantastic you can set it up exactly how you want it and it also has some

08:26things in terms of adjusting the angle of images and also changing the frame rate which are pretty

08:31unique to this this device as far as I know at least it also has all the basics magnification and

08:36colors and you can shoot video and you can take pictures all of the things you would want a camera

08:40like this to do and in a package which is very lightweight and cheaper than some of the other

08:45competition it should also be noted you can get an OCR version of this device which will read

08:50printed text aloud to you now we haven't got that unfortunately but I'm sure that that works well

08:54in this day and age so do I recommend this camera well yeah it's lightweight and it does what you

08:59want it to do so why not give it a try if you get the option to do so and why not also join us on

09:05TechConnect Live that's our live show and we do it every other Thursday at 11am central if you're

09:10watching this video when it releases the next TechConnect Live is the Thursday after so please tune in 11am

09:16central and you can see myself and my colleague Cory talk about assistive technology check us out and

09:22we look forward to seeing you in the next video

09:32hey so how about this Jonathan we take out the base here and now we've got ourselves a sweet little

09:38selfie stick extend the head oh yeah I got it pointing right toward me and now I can do all of my vacation

09:45selfies nice

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