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Device From Start-Up company Gives the Visually Impaired a Way to Read
A glasses-mounted camera, connected to a pocket-sized computer, OCR software and a bone-conduction speaker. Like Google Glass, but with purpose:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/04/science/israeli-start-up-gives-visually-impaired-a-way-to-read.html Probably also good for those with reading comprehension issues... |
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Cool stuff! I sent a link to lovely daughter #3 who's son is the one born very very prematurely who is visually impaired. If they can do this I bet the next step is computer assisted glasses so he can see normally.
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That is fantastic - exciting application of people/machine smarts.
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