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Independent Living Aids has a Silver Tone Talking Watch with Vibrating Alarm for $22 plus about $7 for shipping. That's nearly half off the list price for this item. It includes actual watch hands and uses a female voice. The alarm can either vibrate, make a sound, or play a song. Deal ends December 31.

For a reader, Bargain Bob has found the Franklin Language Master Special Edition for $399.99 at Allheart.com. It includes a talking dictionary and other tools, but I always liked the games like Anagrams and Word Train.

Princeton Watches has the Seiko Ladies Braille Watch for $120. With free shipping, that's $80 off retail and the lowest price we could find. It includes a leather band and carrying case and opens at the 6 o'clock position.

The I.D. Mate handheld bar code reader sells for $1,199 at the Magnifying Aids EBay store. With about $16 for shipping, it's nearly $100 off and the lowest price we could find. This unit will identify nearly a million items and is great for traveling to the grocery store or organizing your cupboards. Several accessories are also included.

TheNerds.net has the Panasonic KXTG6071m Expandable Cordless Phone system with talking caller ID for $63.21. Pay with the simple-to-use Google Checkout system and save an additional $5, making the price $58.21. Shipping adds about $10. In addition to the talking caller ID, this item includes a speakerphone feature and is expandable with the purchase of additional handsets. New to Google Checkout? It allows you to pay for items using a credit card using a very simple form. Your card information is never disclosed to the merchant to protect your privacy. Deal ends December 18.

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Ending today, Independent Living Aids has the TapMemo Personal Organizer for $125.00. With about $8 for shipping, it's the best price we could find for this personal assistant by $25. This voice-activated device includes a phone book, memo recorder holding up to 60 messages, calendar, clock, alarm, autodialer, and a locator feature in case you loose the device. It uses only three buttons for its operations.

Independent Living Aids notes that for items shipped to west of the Mississippi River, orders must be placed by December 17 for standard ground shipping by the holidays. For the rest of the country, place your order by December 19. Additionally, you have until December 21 for overnight shipments.

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Through the next few days, we'll be posting shipping deadlines for some of the stores frequently mentioned on our site. There's only a few shopping days until Christmas, and even less if you're ordering products online. Blind Mice Mart says that for adaptive products, order by December 12 for pacific time customers, December 14 for mountain time users, the 16th for central time, and the 18th for eastern time. This'll guarantee you a December 24th or earlier delivery. Watch out for updates from more stores coming soon. Update: link fixed.

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For a reader, Bargain Bob has found the Lenovo USB 17-key numeric keypad for $21.13 at TheNerds.net. Add about $10 for shipping. This device allows you to have a desktop-style numeric pad on a laptop, and should work great for screen readers or Kurzweil 1000.

A South Korean company has licensed technology from HP which, it says, will allow them to create a small device to read text aloud. Licensed by a company called Mouscan, Users will be able to waive the Voiscan unit, about the size of a cell phone, over text and hear it read aloud within a few seconds. It will also translate to other languages on the fly, making it a good candidate for international travelers as well as the blind. The closest competition we know of is the KNFB reader, which could make for some interesting competition if this machine works as promised. Expect it some time in 2008. Learn more at Tech Chronicles.

The Cake and Candy EBay store has braille christmas chocolate molds for $2. Add about $3 for shipping. These hard plastic molds contain two braille phrases which would be formed when chocolate is pored into them.

For a reader, here's a link to the Chocolate Experience, the longest-running company providing braille chocolate gifts. Bars start at $5, though unfortunately, a $50 minimum order now applies.

Blind Mice Mart has their Too Much Sex Causes Blindness T-shirt for $17. Add it to your cart and the price falls further to $14.45. With about $8 for shipping, it's the lowest price we've seen for this novelty shirt. Several sizes are available.

Although other colors are out of stock, WalMart.com has the Hamilton Beach Talking Microwave, in black, for $79.96. You can have it shipped for free to your local store or pay for shipping to your home. These usually sell out within a few days. It features 10 power levels, 8 presets for common foods, and English and Spanish operation. According to reports, most features are accessible and usable without sighted assistance.

Up on EBay currently is a PowerbBraille 40 with a starting bid price of $14.99. Add about $11 for shipping. It's untested, but may be worth a look at this price. Freedom Scientific charges roughly $700 to repair similar units. Auction ends December 10.

An EBay seller has listed a copy of Kurzweil 1000 version 11 with a starting bid price of $775.85. With about $15 for shipping, it's about $200 off list price for this software, which is the latest version of Kurzweil's OCR product. Auction ends December 8.

It's not often that newer hardware ends up on EBay, but here we have a Braille Star 40-cell braille display with a bid of $200. It connects via USB and is advertised as working, though you will need to purchase a power supply. In addition to being a braille display, it can act as a scratch pad, storing up to 4,000 pages of text. Auction ends December 7.