This
adorable Finger Reader by
the Fluid Interfaces
Group at the MIT Media
Lab is a high-tech way to help visually impaired people read; it actually scans
printed text and narrates it loudly.
How it
Works:- This short vid shows how it works from a few different angles, but
basically: as a fingertip follows along in a book , a camera in the over sized
ring records and analyzes the words, which are then said in a Stephen
Hawking-like voice.
Exotic
Feature -Haptic clues-like vibrations-are given to the user when she nears the
end of a line and to note where a new one begins, as well as if she begins to
drift off track.
- Plus,
apparently it's also a freaking translator! Imagine just running your hand
along a page written in another language and being able to understand the whole
thing.