[vip_students] Re: [TTZ] Finger ring reader
- From: "eleanormarthaburke@xxxxxxxxx" <eleanormarthaburke@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 15:54:14 +0000
Only comment is that it would seem to be on the lines of the Opticon Developed
some decades ago
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From: Tony Sweeney
Sent: 16/07/2014, 3:49 pm
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Well anyway let's hope that it's a success, sounds promising indeed.
Anyone hear/read any more developments of the product I for one would be
glad to hear.
Tony Sweeney
On 16/07/2014 14:34, Eleanor Martha Burke wrote:
> Yes Tony, I think someone might have even posted it to this list or at
> least Domanique did post to some list if I recall correctly.
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>> (Hi folk,
>>
>> You may have seen the below taken from another list but for those who
>> haven't.)
>>
>> Thought this worth passing along. Hot off the press announcement for
>> the visually impaired.
>> http://phys.org/news/2014-07-mit-finger-device-real.h
>> <http://phys.org/news/2014-07-mit-finger-device-real.html> Scientists
>> at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing an audio
>> reading device to be worn on the index finger of people whose vision
>> is impaired, giving them affordable and immediate access to printed
>> words. The so-called Finger Reader, a prototype produced by a 3-D
>> printer, fits like a ring on the user's finger, equipped with a small
>> camera that scans text. A synthesized voice reads words aloud,
>> quickly translating books, restaurant menus and other needed
>> materials for daily living, especially away from home or office.
>> Reading is as easy as pointing the finger at text. Special software
>> tracks the finger movement, identifies words and processes the
>> information. The device has vibration motors that alert readers when
>> they stray from the script, said Roy Shilkrot, who is developing the
>> device at the MIT Media Lab. For Jerry Berrier, 62, who was born
>> blind, the promise of the FingerReader is its portability and offer
>> of real-time functionality at school, a doctor's office and
>> restaurants. "When I go to the doctor's office, there may be forms
>> that I wanna read before I sign them," Berrier said. He said there
>> are other optical character recognition
>> <http://phys.org/tags/optical+character+recognition/> devices on the
>> market for t(You may have seen the below but for those who haven't
>> see below that I got from another list.)
>> hose with vision impairments, but none that he knows of that will
>> read in real time. Berrier manages training and evaluation for a
>> federal program that distributes technology to low-income people in
>> Massachusetts and Rhode Island who have lost their sight and hearing.
>> He works from the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown,
>> Massachusetts. Read more at:
>> http://phys.org/news/2014-07-mit-finger-device-real.html#jCp BOB
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