Sorry, I'm a day late on this.


>
> In another advance for the independence of blind people, the American 
> Printing House for the Blind has announced a prototype of a facial 
> recognition system
> that will warn users of the approach of obnoxious persons. The system 
> consists of glasses embedded with a tiny camera, a belt-worn processing 
> unit, and
> an earpiece. The system will recognize the faces of people preprogrammed 
> into the unit and will use synthetic speech to warn the blind user of 
> their approach.
>
>
> "We continue to work on leveling the playing field," said an APH 
> spokesman. "Sighted people have the advantage of being able to dodge 
> overbearing relatives,
> endlessly chatty landlords, and neighbors trying to invite them to sales 
> parties for products they don't need. We hope soon that blind folks will 
> have
> the same freedom."
>
> A planned second-generation prototype will be able to use artificial 
> intelligence to recognize obnoxious persons automatically, without 
> requiring pre-programming.
> Algorithms are being developed to recognize such persons as 
> bad-joke-telling bosses, pushy sales people, and that guy who just won't 
> take no for an answer.
>
>
> There is no word when the unit might be commercially available.
>
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