How A New App Is Giving ‘Sight’ To The Blind

  KNFB Reader is a new app by Ray Kurzweil, which helps visually impaired and blind people to “read” text. By Christina Farr and Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Jonathan Mosen, who has been blind since birth, spent his evening snapping photos of packages in the mail, his son’s school report and labels on bottles in the fridge. In seconds, he was listening to audio of the printed words the camera captured, courtesy of a new app on his Apple Inc iPhone. “I couldn’t believe how accurate it was,” said Mosen, an assistive technology consultant from New Zealand. The new app that allows blind people to listen to an audio readback of printed text is receiving rave reviews after its first day of availability…

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Older users get more options with the latest announcement from Fujitsu to release a phone that caters to people with less than perfect eyesight Source: http://bit.ly/1509nDF   TOKYO — The Japanese electronics industry largely missed out on the smartphone revolution. Yet this summer, even as one Japanese company, NEC, exited the business, another one, Fujitsu, announced plans for a new export push. Rather than competing with dominant brands like Samsung and Apple in the mainstream smartphone market, Fujitsu is aiming at a niche — older consumers, who, the company says, are not always served adequately by products like Apple’s iPhone or the Samsung Galaxy series. For iPhone users, there are some new apps like BigFONT available, that turn the iPhone into a portable reading machine, helping people with…

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6 Behaviors That Cure And Prevent Cancer

  BigFONT Insight: Looking at what all these people have done to cure their terminal cancer makes me think that when we adopt the same approach while we are still healthy, chances are that we will be living a much healthier and happier life and won’t even get sick in the first place…. Source www.mindbodygreen.com When I first read the Spontaneous Remission Project, which consists of over 3,500 case studies in medical literature of patients who have been cured from seemingly “incurable” illnesses, either without medical treatment or with treatment deemed inadequate for cure. These case studies, written up by doctors as unexplainable cases, offer a scientific peek into the mystery of medicine, the awe of medicine, and the possibility of what some might call …

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More kids getting dry eyes due to electronic gadget use GMA News But if eye conditions such as nearsightedness (myopia) run in the family, bring the child even earlier, Dr. Chan-Uy said, since a high grade of nearsightedness may lead to amblyopia. BigFONT‘s insight: No wonder that by the time the kids grow up, most of them need glasses. Source: www.gmanetwork.com You see them at fast-food outlets, inside waiting rooms of clinics, outside the boarding gates at the airport, and maybe, even in your own home: children staring intently at a tablet device, a phone, or a gaming device, thumbs and forefingers quick to the draw, so to speak. More and more children are getting into the habit of using electronic devices to play Angry…

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