An 'electronic eye' for the blind
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Japanese scientists have built an electronic eye they say could help blind people get around safely.
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New lens technology creates a versatile sub-$5000 projector good for home theater or business.
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A new cellular application promises to help vision-impaired people who can&#39;t read the screen of a mobile phone. It responds to spoken commands with voice recognition technology and reads back menu options, text messages, and other information to the user.
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Dan Frakes  likes what he sees. âThe screen makes it clearâno pun intendedâthat the design is a winner.â Awarding iPod nano 4.5 (out of five) stars, he points out that âmenu text is clearer and easier to read than it was with the previous model. And even though this is the smallest video-playing screen Iâve used, after watching a 90-minute movie on the nano I was pleasantly surprised by the experience. Picture quality is comparable to that of the iPhone, just smaller.â âEssentially a miniaturized version of the iPod classic available for as little as $149,â iPod nano offers âall the same features and capabilities including video playback and output.â
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THE first health warning for people who work with computers has followed a study that shows an increased risk of glaucoma in short-sighted people.
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The brain can learn to see in later life even if it has been deprived of visual input early on, work with blind children suggests.
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A novel nanolaser could cram more data onto a hard disk.
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Japanese scientists say they have created an electronic eye that would help blind people cross the street safely. The device, a tiny camera mounted to a pair of eyeglasses, can detect the existence and location
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By Paula M. Davenport, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Sep. 21--People with severe visual impairments can now send and receive e-mails, navigate the Internet and create documents and presentations at a new computer workstation in the Spokane Valley Library.
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Personal TV Channel system is making its debut at IFA consumer electronics show.
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Device allows viewers to operate on/off switch, change channels or volume by simple hand gestures.
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It seems like a cool idea &#151; sunglasses with a built-in digital music player and speakers. No headphone cables to untangle as with most portable players. Music actually riding on your ears. Zero retinal damage from ultraviolet radiation.
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Polymer Vision's upcoming Readius is an e-book with a flexible screen and cell phone capabilities.
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That ability to catch, store, move and release light could be used in future computers to process information encoded in the light pulses.
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Company is working on flexible display technologies.
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A less-than-futuristic surveillance system in San Francisco.
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A team of US researchers has shown that controlling devices with the brain is a step closer. Four people, two of them partly paralysed wheelchair users, successfully moved a computer cursor while wearing a cap with 64 electrodes.