That device only sorta works. It's made by aviosys http://www.aviosys.com/ who have apalling support and even worse software development.
The firmware is buggy and awkward, many of the features don't appear to do anything, it often forgets its current settings (time, date, default options etc) and it crashes pretty often.
Having said that, it does actually feed video images over a network.
I've successfully taken out the backlight panel from a few LCDs to use as lightbox for photograph transparencies. It's a nice, uniformly illuminated white panel that runs off (usually) 5Volts or so, and gives a good light for viewing photograph slides.
The Cochlear device uses Zinc Air cells which are disposable and last 55 hours typically for 3 cells. This would cost about $ 480 per year.
The ABC device uses rechargeable cells. However these last only about 6 - 12 hours between charges so you have to change them during the day, maybe
twice. Also the cells are special modules which only last for 320 charge/discharge cycles so you would use 2 to 3 per year. At $ 300 - 350
per cell the cost would be $ 600 - 1000 per year.
The other factor to consider is the failure rate of implants. Although thisis low, the ABC has a higher failure rate than the Cochlear device.
Finally the ABC is made of ceramic which is more easily broken than the Cochlear device which is made of Titanium
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That device only sorta works. It's made by aviosys http://www.aviosys.com/ who have apalling support and even worse software development.
The firmware is buggy and awkward, many of the features don't appear to do anything, it often forgets its current settings (time, date, default options etc) and it crashes pretty often.
Having said that, it does actually feed video images over a network.
this group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/9100/ has reached a bit of a stalemate trying to make the devices do somethig useful.
As far as I remember, I used an old mobile phone charger for at least one backlight screen. I think it was rated at 7Volts, 300mA maximum.
I've successfully taken out the backlight panel from a few LCDs to use as lightbox for photograph transparencies. It's a nice, uniformly illuminated white panel that runs off (usually) 5Volts or so, and gives a good light for viewing photograph slides.
The Cochlear device uses Zinc Air cells which are disposable and last 55 hours typically for 3 cells. This would cost about $ 480 per year. The ABC device uses rechargeable cells. However these last only about 6 - 12 hours between charges so you have to change them during the day, maybe twice. Also the cells are special modules which only last for 320 charge/discharge cycles so you would use 2 to 3 per year. At $ 300 - 350 per cell the cost would be $ 600 - 1000 per year. The other factor to consider is the failure rate of implants. Although thisis low, the ABC has a higher failure rate than the Cochlear device. Finally the ABC is made of ceramic which is more easily broken than the Cochlear device which is made of Titanium