Tiny Camera Sees for the Blind
From: Product Design & Development - 02/26/2014
By: Melissa Fassbender

Three years into development, OrCam has developed an eyeglass-mounted device
that helps the visually impaired better understand the world around them, and
its primary use is to help user’s process text. OrCam can recognize generic
objects, but it can also be taught to recognize specific items that are
important to the user.

The user triggers the device by pointing in the general direction of an
object. The description is then relayed to the user via a discrete ear phone
that uses bone conduction technology and sits discretely on the user’s cheek,
keeping peripheral hearing intact.

The company is now working to develop a function that will allow the device
to recognize places and faces, moving closer to the level of human vision
they hope to one day achieve.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.pddnet.com/articles/2014/02/tiny-camera-sees-blind

Link:
Orcam (with video 4:34)
http://www.orcam.com