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Tools, Tips & Toys

April 2011, Issue 1

Tools of the Month

Battery Interrupters - Instructional Videos

Battery Interrupters are some of our most useful tools for the disabled. The Interrupters allow you to adapt regularly-manufactured toys for switch activation. We sell one designed for items that run on AA batteries (Item No. 640) and another for those that run on C or D batteries (Item No. 641). The interrupter cuts off power to the device so that it will not run when switched on. By pressing a switch connected to the other end of the interrupter, power is restored and the toy turns on. All of our many switches work with the battery interrupters.

You can vary the way in which the switch operates with our Switch Modifier (Item No. 605). This allows you to operate the switch in "latch" and "time" modes in addition to the normal momentary activation. It also features intention adjustment which requires the user to hold the switch for 1-15 seconds before triggering the device's response.

Now toys that normally run continuously can be user-controlled. And with our many different switches, your child will be able to operate his/her favorite toy or device.

VIDEOS!

Now we have instructional videos teaching you how to use these great products. Our product specialist Vinny Livoti guides you through a detailed look at the Interrupters. He explains what toys will and won't work with battery interrupters, how to correctly install them and the different ways to utilize these products.

In This Issue

Battery Interrupters

Toy of the Month

Did You Know?

TOY OF THE MONTH

Spinning Symphony

Fantastic classical music fun!

DID YOU KNOW?

Dr. Steven Kanor developed his first enabling device in 1972. It was a solid state signal buzzer encased in an indestructible, steel foot switch case and mounted on the arm of a wheelchair. Dr. Steve designed the signaling device after observing a mother attempt to make something similar for her wheelchair-bound son. Replacing her burdensome system of dangling wires, batteries and a doorbell with a convenient, integrated device set the stage for future technological innovation for the disabled.

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