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There have been several projects like this including one at MIT.  A group of women there won an award from Microsoft for their prototype device.  It remains to be seen whether any of these prototypes make it to the market.

Dan

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> On Sep 11, 2017, at 3:57 PM, Harry Brown <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> Just got to this today.
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> the link to read the article is
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> http://m.gulfnews.com/news/uae/education/uae-students-invent-photo-to-braille-translator-to-make-reading-easier-for-visually-impaired-1.2086882
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> Harry
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