Bocket money brailler, is it really useful?

Hi,

I've not used this device but I have done a couple of strategies for identifying paper money over the years. My primary one is to use a folding method. For example don't fold a $1 bill. Fold a $5 bill in half and fold a $10 bill in half the long way, the opposite of the $5 bill.

You can also braille on the corner of a bill by hand if you have a slate and stylus. You don't actually need a dedicated machine for this. I have done that also but the braille markings don't last real long if you end up carrying the bill for a long time. Overall as you said, I don't carry that much cash anymore

Unfortunately, this device does not work very well. You end up putting the money into the machine and you put the number of the denomination of the bill onto it, but it tends to squish the Braille a bit so it doesn’t really work as well as it might in theory. I also use a folding method identify my bills. The thing about Braille your bills is that you would still need someone to tell you what they are initially in order to borrow them. So the solution didn’t work great for me. But if you want to give us a shot, you certainly could.

WTH is the orbit research iBill? I remember that in canada cnib has a $10 bank note reader device too, so I wonder why theirs costs +$100 for usd? Or is it a completely different product.

About a decade ago, when I was in guide dog school, there was an older gentleman from Canada, who was showing me all of his Canadian folding money. All of it was brailled, and according to him, it comes that way.
Canadian folding money is interesting, because the paper feels a lot like credit card receipt paper, rather than US mint. A shame the rest of the world doesn't adopt this strategy, it would make things a lot easier.