Kurzweil's K-NFB portable scanner equips the blind with reading power
Posted By: Vikas Shekhawat | Jun 22 2006
Now blinds too can read; thanks to Raymond Kurzweil's latest innovation that simply photo-scans text documents, and read them back to blind users. This time Kurzweil managed to move way head of his first 1981 washing machine sized Reading Machine with the portable K-NFB scanner. The scanner eliminates the need to take the printed material to the hardware.
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The K-NFB packs a PDA and a digital camera allowing people to read menus, train timetables and product labels in shops with ease.
The scanner will hit US market next month for a whopping £2,625.
Via: futurismic
