The fingerreader is a ring like device that.
Finger reader for blind working.
Researchers at mit have developed a wearable device that enables blind and vision impaired people to read any printed text without the use of braille.
With fingerreader blind users are able to simply point at products text phases etc.
Roy shilkrot would mean getting the device to work on touch screen devices such as tablets and e readers.
In this paper we present our work from the past 18 months.
Blind people s abilities to gain more independence a charac teristic widely identiļ¬ed as important by our interviewees.
At mit s media labs researchers roy shilkrot jochen huber and others are working on the fingerreader a ring like device that straps itself around your finger and reads printed text out.
Right now the only solution is disabling the touch recognition component of the device.
Keeping everything on fingerreader the same the user s finger is likely to disrupt the movable text.
And have the results spoken back to them.
To do that says co researcher dr.
Wired reporter sandy ong highlights the work of prof.