Note-Taker lets students with low vision take notes in the class flawlessly

In quest to reach a newer heights in technology, Microsoft had held a competition among students to build tools that can help people to deal with some real life problems. As a result, a team from Arizona State University came up with an invention called as Note-Taker, a tool for people with low vision. This device helps those students with low vision take notes in the class flawlessly. The tool was practically useful as it has been built by a team whose one of the members, David Hayden, is blind. David tested this tool on himself and proved it useful.

Note-taker

According to the team, the Note-Taker device is better than any other similar device available in the market. Note-Taker not only allows the students to see all that is written on the board, but also helps them to make their own notes. The team explains that Note-Taker has very attractive features that can enable students to learn and understand the subject better. It has a custom-designed pan or zoom camera and also a tablet PC that has the power to support both pen as well as multi-touch input. Apart from this, the tool can also make images large, shift videos back, take screenshots of the board and also help to refer to all these notes offline later.

Note-taker

These unique features made them the winners. This tool undoubtedly serves a humane touch of enlightening the life of so many visually weak students. It can help them study properly and have a bright future, just like David Hayden himself who is all set to do a PhD in computer science at MIT. The members of the team are planning to launch the Note-Taker in the market at a price of $1000.

Via: MindShift