The finger reader lets people read only what they re pointing at promising a relatively fuss free experience especially when out and about.
Finger reader for blind working.
Keeping everything on fingerreader the same the user s finger is likely to disrupt the movable text.
Researchers at mit have developed a wearable device that enables blind and vision impaired people to read any printed text without the use of braille.
Suranga nanayakkara who as a postdoc at mit helped develop the finger reader a device aimed at helping people with visual impairments read without the need for clunky hardware.
In this paper we present our work from the past 18 months.
Wired reporter sandy ong highlights the work of prof.
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The fingerreader is a ring like device that.
With fingerreader blind users are able to simply point at products text phases etc.
In our previous work we have created a fingerreader v0 finger worn assistive augmentation with the vision of empowering and enabling people with visual impairments.
At mit s media labs researchers roy shilkrot jochen huber and others are working on the fingerreader a ring like device that straps itself around your finger and reads printed text out.
Roy shilkrot would mean getting the device to work on touch screen devices such as tablets and e readers.