As a startup, researchers from Israel developed a new device for the blind. This device converts a picture into a sound. Compared with other devices, this one is more usable and not so large. Special OrCam device helps people to effectively recognize text even written in small print.
This device is a small camera that is attached to glasses and connected to a portable computer hidden in a pocket. It converts images and texts into the audio signals. It can be a numbering of public transport or ads’ in the newspaper. With its’ five megapixel camera the blind person can recognize familiar things of everyday life, search for people, read words and sentences and find many other things. The device can work entire 6 hours without recharging. Yonath Wexler, the vice-president, told that such a device can help blind person to imagine the whole world, but the most important achievement is a development of unique set of algorithms that make it possible to recognize objects.
Several dozen people in Israel already have this device. It will be available in the US soon, at a price of more than 2,500 USD, although there are already many people willing to buy these devices.
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