Seeing-Eye Computer Guides Blind

sushant_bhatia writes "Wired News has a story about seeing-eye computer guides for the blind. This is an interesting piece on efforts at Arizona State University and Wright State University to provide features for individuals who are blind. A very interesting project is called the iCare Reader, which allows any individual who is blind to read a normal library book through this product, which 'uses optical character-recognition software along with other software that compensates for different lighting conditions and orientations of the text.' Further details on this can be found at The Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (Cubic)."

Comments

ATM's

[slimsam1]

Maybe now we can stop paying for braille buttons at drive-through ATM's.


;-)

Hmmmm

[Neil Blender]

That explains why my dog has been moping around all day. His dreams have been crushed.

But... Can it read PrOn?

[Cordath]

If that dohickey can describe the contents of a playboy to a blind man in sufficient detail to give him a high quality woody then I say it's nobel prize time. Why? It's no big deal for a blind man to find someone to read literature to him. However, it is considerably more difficult for a blind man to find someone willing to describe naked women to him while he jerks his gerkin. Do you have any idea what kind of overtime the average aide would charge for that level of service?

I'd rather have a queer-eye computer

[britneys 9th husband]

Instead of having a seeing eye computer, I'd rather have a queer-eye computer that could tell me whether or not my clothes match in the morning.

Is it just me, or...

[Quattro Vezina]

Did anyone else misread the headline as saying that the ``seeing eye computer guides'' were blind?