DailyDirt: Tools For The Blind

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Visually impaired folks have access to more technology than ever before. Despite various setbacks that prevent some ingenious innovations, plenty of developers are still working on hardware and software tools to help out people with disabilities. Here are just a few examples of some interesting projects for the blind. If you'd like to read more awesome and interesting stuff, check out this unrelated (but not entirely random!) Techdirt post.
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Filed Under: arduino, blind, crowdsourced, haptics, hardware, innovations, mechanical turk, software, sonar, tacit project, tools, visually impaired, vizwiz
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  1. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 14 Aug 2012 @ 5:04pm

    In the land of the blind the man with one eye is king.

    True story

    link to this | view in thread ]

  2. identicon
    Rekrul, 15 Aug 2012 @ 12:11am

    I wonder how many of these inventions will have to be withdrawn once the inevitable patent lawsuits start being filed...

    link to this | view in thread ]

  3. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 15 Aug 2012 @ 1:16am

    Re:

    All of them

    link to this | view in thread ]


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