[mountainstate] Fw: [leadership] Intel Read-Aloud Reader

[Randi]

Yeah, but if you have the KNFB reader...then you have a phone and a  
scanner all in one. Yeah, this thing looks cool, but not for the  
money. If I'm ever a millionaire, I'll check it out hahaha!

~Randi and Insert

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On Jan 27, 2010, at 5:15 PM, JRayl wrote:

> Yeah it does. I want this thing and I want the money. <LOL>
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> Ah wow this thing sounds cool. Who can afford it though ;)
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> On Jan 25, 2010, at 12:03 PM, JRayl wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Ben Foss was a bright kid, but as a student, he struggled with
>> reading even the
>> simplest text.  Afflicted with severe dyslexia, he relied on
>> parents and tutors
>> to read him his homework since the words on the page made no
>> sense to him.  At
>> Stanford, he managed to earn two advanced degrees by laboriously
>> scanning books
>> and then running them through synthetic speech software so he
>> could comprehend
>> the words.
>> As an adult, much of the content he wanted in professional
>> journals and
>> magazines wasn't available in audio form.
>> So, when he was hired as a researcher at Intel, he vowed to make
>> designing a
>> reading device one of his first priorities.  At CES 2010, his
>> brainchild, the
>> Intel Reader made its debut.  "Feelings of loneliness are often
>> the experience of
>> not being able to read easily," he says, based on years of
>> trying.  "We hope to
>> open the doors for people who have dyslexia, blindness or other
>> reading-based
>> disabilities."
>> The device, designed by Silicon Valley design shop, Lunar, for
>> Intel's Digital
>> Health Group, is about the size of a paperback book or a
>> hand-held video game.
>> It works by taking a picture of a page of text, then converting
>> it to speech.
>> "It's designed around the ergonomics of reading," says Gretchen
>> Anderson,
>> director of interaction design, at Lunar.  "It's purposefully not
>> designed as a
>> digital camera.  You can use it with your elbows on the table, at
>> the right
>> height."
>> There are an estimated 55 million people with dyslexia, low
>> vision or blindness,
>> who find reading printed text difficult or impossible.  In
>> addition to students,
>> the device is designed to be convenient for older people who find
>> it hard to
>> read restaurant menus or mail, and it has clever tactile cues,
>> such a corner cut
>> off like a dog eared book and buttons distinguishable by feel and
>> location, to
>> help the blind orient themselves.
>> A portable capture station allows users to scan larger amounts
>> of text, such as
>> complete books or journals.  They can be saved, much as one would
>> with an ebook,
>> for listening later.  The device comes with earphones for
>> listening privately, in
>> the car, or in class, and files can also be exported to MP3
>> players.
>> The device has been endorsed by the International Dyslexia
>> Association and will
>> be available for about $1,500 through CTL, Don Johnston
>> Incorporated, GTSI,
>> Howard Technology Solutions and HumanWare.  The capture station
>> costs an extra
>> $400.
>> "At CES, we see people who love their iPhones," says Lunar's
>> director of
>> engineering, Robert Howard.  "When Intel demo-ed this, people who
>> have dyslexia
>> could see their futures change when watching the device.  It's
>> truly a
>> transformative device for people who haven't had a lot of
>> transformation in
>> their lives."
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