A mixture of an Optical Character Recognition / Text-to-speech software (the source material is identified by eye-tracking lasers). The audio-output from the Text to speech system is sent to earphones attached to the glasses' ear-hooks.-- Dub, Mar 27 2008 AT&T Text-To-Speech Demo http://www.research...ttsweb/tts/demo.phpFun with accents. [baconbrain, Mar 27 2008] KNFB Reader http://www.knfbread...products-mobile.phpcell phone with this feature and gps for people who are blind [JesusHChrist, Mar 28 2008] Yay, they translate, too http://news.bbc.co....hnology/8343941.stm [Dub, Nov 05 2009] its a shame that you actually have to *look* at the text i.e. you could be doing the housework or office work and yet, the glasses hold up the text and read to you rather like a radio...
hmmmmm.-- po, Mar 28 2008 "If you can read this you're too close"
<On the bus, earphones fall out whilst reading Bambi Erotica,external speaker kicks in>Mrs Tibbs - "Oooh I say"-- skinflaps, Mar 28 2008 A few tweaks and this could potentially help the blind read non-Braille books. [+]-- theleopard, Mar 28 2008 + I like [po]'s and [theleopard]'s annos. Both great suggestions to a cool idea! OK, I like [skinflaps] funny, too.-- xandram, Mar 28 2008 [po] The laser eye tracking was an afterthought, but the idea was to prevent the same text from being read-out every time it happens to be on screen / in view (e.g. "halfbakery" at the top left of all pages here) - Sure sometimes you want to check what site you're on, but it shouldn't be repeated all the time. That said. I like the specialist-radio idea - I guess we'll make the eye-tracking turn-off-and-on-able... probably by some gesture, like blinking both eyes in a certain sequence
[theleopard] - I was thinking of an anti-dyslexia tool, but I like.-- Dub, Mar 28 2008 // I was thinking of an anti-dyslexia tool// What's wrong with daily sex?-- coprocephalous, Mar 28 2008 Dairy sex? Isn't that illegal?-- jtp, Mar 28 2008 <imagines blind grandfather reading a bedtime story, from a "magic book", to the astonishment of his confused grandchildren>-- theleopard, Mar 28 2008 So, not an obscure Spanish football club then?-- AbsintheWithoutLeave, Mar 28 2008 [JHC] Sound like they should be a BlueTooth device, cool!-- Dub, Mar 28 2008 [Absinthe] I didn't know Madrid was twinned Reading of all places-- Dub, Mar 29 2008 halfbakery