Eschenbach Visolux Digital HD - Advanced Portable Color Video Magnifier (7” LCD Screen with Anti-Glare Coating, HD Camera, and Built-in Stand) - Includes Liberty Cleaning Cloth

Love this product

Great engineering all around. The design is perfect, the tech is perfect, and it gets the job done simple and without a single complaint. All life tools should be so easy and excellent.

My mother has macular degeneration and her vision is very poor. She needed a better magnifier with a larger screen and with at least 32x magnification. She had one once before but it was purchased through an eye doctor and it stopped working. She figured out how to use it again and I see her using it every day. She's not able to use it with the computer but she does use it with newspapers, books and other similar items. It is on the expensive side, but my mother feels it is worth being able to read.

The item itself works well, but beware: the GENIUSES who designed it decided to use a MINI-usb port (a 20-year old, legacy technology) despite having introduced it less than 2 years ago, well after MICRO-usb became the standard (and forget about usb-c, maybe they'll get around to it 30 years from now.) Bottom line: my mom can barely see to plug it in (I usually have to do it for her) and just try to get any kind of adapter for it. For a product DESIGNED fo people with low vision, this decision is a real head-scratcher. You have been warned.