MIT Develops Camera For The Blind - Visually Challenged MIT Poet’s ’seeing Machine’ Allows Sight-impaired To Take, See Photos
Elizabeth Goldring smiles as she shows a visitor photos she’s taken - and can see - with her blind eye. The demonstration comes more than 20 years after Goldring, a senior fellow at MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies, and colleagues began work on a “seeing machine” that can allow some people who are blind or visually challenged to access the Internet, view the face of a friend and much more.
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Filed under: Eye Health on January 14th, 2009