AUTHOR: ARIELLE PARDES
Wired magazine, GEAR
20 July 2017
WHEN HE WAS in school, Michael Hingson created a Braille computer terminal so he could study like all the other students. Fresh out of college, he worked
on the development of the Kurzweil Reading Machine for the Blind, the first commercial text-to-speech machine for the visually impaired. He's used white
canes and guide dogs, voice controls on his smartphone and virtual assistants like
Alexa,
all in the name of doing things on his own despite being blind since birth. But something as simple as reading a comic book, or finding the split pea soup
among all the cans in the pantry? Until recently, that just seemed impossible.
https://www.wired.com/story/wearables-for-the-blind/
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