Cell Phone That Reads to The Blind

If you have normal vision and can read, there are thousands of things you do every day without even thinking even about it, little problems you solve with just a glance -- like knowing which coffee bag in a hotel is caffeinated or decaf. James Gashel is blind, but he can distinguish the difference with help from his cell phone. "All you have to do is snap a picture of the bag, and it tells you," he says. A new cell phone offers the smallest text-to-speech reading device ever built, a device especially useful for people like James, who have with impaired vision.

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