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Company Background
The Company and The Brand
Telesensory equipment designed for vision impaired people has been a innovative creation for the past 38 years. Today Telesensory has became a "household brand name" in the low vision industry. Over the three decades, Telesensory products have been helping vision impaired and the blind achieve greater independence through innovative technology.
On 3rd August 2005, Telesensory business was formally acquired by Insiphil (S) Pte Ltd, a Singapore based company. Since then thousands of Telesensory equipments have been manufactured at Insiphil Manufacturing Sdn Bhd, an associated factory of Insiphil located in Johor, Malaysia. Since then, more new products, such as Vertex, Vertex Pro and Apex Pro have been developed, manufactured and distributed worldwide.
The Market
More than four million people in the United States, over eleven million in the European Economic Community, and many more worldwide, are visually impaired to the point where eyeglasses are not sufficient to enable them to meet a large portion of their visual needs. Many are seniors whose eyesight has begun to diminish due to macular degeneration. The number of seniors -people over 65- increased by 22 percent between 1980 and 1990, to about 13 percent of the population in North America. The number of people who could potentially benefit from Telesensory's low vision products is expected to continue to increase as America's population ages.
Product History
Telesensory was born out of the desire to help a
blind girl read. In 1970, four members of the prestigious American
Stanford University electrical engineering department led by Professor
John Linvill developed the technology that was to become the Optacon, a
portable electronic print-reading device, the company's first product, in
an effort to assist Professor Linvill's vision impaired daughter.
Today, Telesensory is the legacy of a number of pioneers in the adaptive devices industry, starting with Telesensory itself, Visualtek and Apollo Lasers in the early 1970s, and Kurzweil Computer Products in 1975.
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