Tommy Craig demonstrates the use of a device that reads print aloud for the blind.



A good news for the blind. You can now hear the printed texts! It is a handheld device that can convert print to audio, built especially for the blind. One has to just position the reader over any printed matter and take a picture of it. It is just a matter of seconds, the device equipped with synthetic voice read the printed message to him.



So with it, you can read everything from menus to cooking directions. Successfully used by Tommy Craig for over the past few months, the National Federation of the Blind plans to put the device on the market shelves Saturday.



The device combines a personal digital assistant and a digital camera. The device is invented by the Kurzweil-National Federation of the Blind Reader. It has Ray Kurzweil and the membership organization of more than 50,000 blind people who developed it.



Via: CNN