[Promotion-technology] wearable reader

[Buddy Brannan]

I’d like to actually see one. I’m somewhat skeptical. At least in early stories, they said it didn’t quite work for totally blind people, but they may have changed their stance on that.
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Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
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On Oct 17, 2013, at 9:21 PM, Ed Meskys <edmeskys at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> An Israeli company does the KNFB reader one better. A TV camera mounted on an eyeglass frame (like Google Glass) takes a picture of what you are looking at, a can of soup in a supermarket, a restaurant menu, a street sign, etc, and feeds into a pocket unit which has OCR and speech synthesis, which reads it into an bone conduction speaker. 
> 
> The article said it will also recognize faces. It sells for $2500. 
> 
> I read about it in the September issue of JBI BOICE magazine, which reprinted it from the NY TIMES for June 4, 2013. I remember reading about it a while ago on NEWSLINE, but had not taken notes about it at the time. 
> 
> The story says it was developed by ORCAM ((spelling?), an Israeli startup.
> 
> Ed Meskys
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