Microsoft demonstrates app that helps see for the blind From: CBS News - 03/31/2016 Seeing AI is a cognitive app that aims to help those who are visually impaired or blind have a better understanding of the world around them. The app was demonstrated in a video shown at the Microsoft Build 2016 Developer Conference in San Francisco. It showed how the app could help serve as something of a digital seeing eye dog. For instance, in a restaurant, a user can take a photo of the menu on a smartphone - a voice in the app guides him until he's got the image centered - and the artificial intelligence will read the contents of the menu. Read the entire article and view a video (2:44) at: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/microsoft-build-2016-developer-conference-cognitive-seeing-app