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OrCam Helps Visually Impaired Read & Recognize Faces: Hey Listen!

A couple of years ago we checked out OpenGlass, a prototype software that used Google Glass to help the visually impaired identify objects. OrCam has a very similar function. It has a camera that clips on to eyeglasses and recognizes text, faces and objects. OrCam can read non-cursive text and…

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PhotoMath App Solves Math Equations at a Glance: Tutor or Cheater?

$PhotoMath App Solves Math Equations at a Glance: Tutor or Cheater?$

Most mobile devices already have a built-in calculator, and you can also get advanced calculator apps. But microBLINK’s PhotoMath app uses optical image recognition on printed equations, so that you can get the solution without even having to input a number. Math teachers beware. PhotoMath can solve simple arithmetic and…

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MIT FingerReader Reads Printed Text Aloud: Talk to the Hand

Braille helps visually impaired people read, but there is a lot of printed material that is never converted to that writing system. Blind people also miss out on using mobile devices because obviously they can’t feel the text on screen. MIT’s Fluid Interfaces Group attempted to address this issue with…

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Smart Glasses Translate Japanese Text to Other Languages: for Manga & JRPG Fans

We’ve seen an iOS app that can translate text from one language to another in real-time. The engineers at Japanese telecommunications company NTT DoCoMo thought it would be easier for users if the translator was integrated into a pair of glasses. If I had these the first thing I’d do…

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LG Crams a Scanner Into Their Smart Scan Mouse

The computer mouse has received quite a lot of attention in the past few months. From mice with digital photo frames to ones with a digital weighing scale, I thought I’ve seen my fair share of multi-purpose mice, at least for this year.…

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Thimble Concept Braille-ifies Digital and Analog Text

Mobile Internet is great – you can check your email, read the news, reserve seats at restaurants, and even check for parking spots, all from your smartphone. Not that I enjoy any of that fantastic futuristic stuff here where I live, but it’s nice to know that theoretically, I could.…

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Word Lens Automagically Translates and Displays Translations

Otavio Good and John DeWeese worked for two and a half years to produce a program that, to paraphrase Arthur C. Clarke’s famous line, is indistinguishable from magic. Good and DeWeese’s app Word Lens is a essentially an OCR (optical character recognition) program. But unlike other OCR software, Word Lens…

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OrCam Helps Visually Impaired Read & Recognize Faces: Hey Listen!

PhotoMath App Solves Math Equations at a Glance: Tutor or Cheater?

MIT FingerReader Reads Printed Text Aloud: Talk to the Hand

Smart Glasses Translate Japanese Text to Other Languages: for Manga & JRPG Fans

LG Crams a Scanner Into Their Smart Scan Mouse

Thimble Concept Braille-ifies Digital and Analog Text

Word Lens Automagically Translates and Displays Translations

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