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Tuesday, May 17, 2005
NZ Technology Makes Reading Easier For People With Low Vision
Adaptive technology company HumanWare have released myReader, an award-winning automatic reading machine for people with low vision. Designed and manufactured in New Zealand with the assistance of the Human Interface Technology Lab, myReader was chosen as ?Best Design? by the New Zealand Institute of Designers.
Using advanced digital technology, myReader captures the text placed underneath its camera and displays it on a built-in 15 inch, flicker-free LCD screen. myReader can then enlarge the text and re-format it so it appears in one of three ways: a column designed to fit the whole screen, a row across the centre of the screen or just one word at a time. The text then automatically scrolls on the screen at the speed selected by the user.
'myReader from HumanWare Restores the Joy of Reading for Thousands of People with Severe Lo', HumanWare media release, 16 May 2005).
Comments:
I will definitely check this reader out. Recently, I have tried these glasses for visual disability for reading purposes. It reads text from almost any surface whether it be a street sign, a newspaper or an email. This wearable artificial vision device works for people who have no vision and partially sighted people which makes it unique in the assistive readers market.
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