Seeing Eye Mobiles bridging the gap for vision impaired

Seeing Eye Mobile Phone Technology

Just read a great blog post on Mobi Health News (thanks to @ShermanHu) about technology to assist visually impaired with mobile phones.

Vision for the future

SeeStar and SeeScan applications from iVisit:

…allow visually impaired users a virtual “pair of eyes” and object recognition using a mobile phone’s camera to detect and recognize objects and locations, using saved still shots, location data or live video transmitted to a remote assistant (either professional service or perhaps to a family, friend or other caregiver.”

With continual advancement, they’re hoping to move towards integrating face recognition and other technology to take these applications – and therefore their users – to a whole new level of mobilility.

Currently the software only works on Windows Mobiles, but being rolled out to iPhones and Symbian handsets as well.

Good one!

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