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>>Good things coming out of Carnegie Mellon
>>AFB (American Foundation for the Blind) Blog
>>Wednesday, April 26, 2006
>>By Carl Augusto
>>
>>Earlier this month a friend sent us an interesting article from the
>>Carnegie Mellon newspaper
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>>http://thetartan.org/2006/4/10/scitech/researchprofiles
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>>about a new technology developed on campus to make it easier for people
>>who are blind to go shopping. According to the school's paper, the
>>technology works as follows:
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>>"Imagine a blind man walks into Entropy [Carnegie Mellon's campus store]
>>and wants to pick up a bottle of mustard. As he walks past one aisle to
>>another, he uses a UPC-reading Baracoda pencil integrated with his phone
>>to scan the barcodes on the shelves under the products he browses. The
>>Baracoda pencil contacts the UPC database through the Internet-enabled
>>phone and identifies the product. The information returned to the phone
>>is then read out by TALKS, software developed by Nuance that was
>>installed in the phone."
>>
>>Assuming the technology would be affordable, this could be really useful
>>for people with vision loss. The team worked closely with a man who is
>>blind on the project, and he gave the assistive technology rave reviews.
>>I was very moved when I read this article, because there's something very
>>heartwarming about students working to improve the lives of people with
>>disabilities. According to the article, the team's next mission is to
>>make the school's shuttle service friendlier to people with vision loss
>>by keeping them informed of arrival times through text messaging. Hats
>>off to Carnegie Mellon!
>>
>>http://www.cmu.edu/
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>>We'll be following the team's progress.
>>
>>http://www.afb.org/blog/blog_comments.asp?TopicID=1387&FolderID=18#commen
>>ts
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