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• Subtitle-Reading Glasses Make Cinema-Going for the Hard of Hearing Less, um, Hard

  Madrid's Carlos III University has developed a gadget that projects subtitles in a movie theater. A computer in the cinema emits the subtitles t... Read more
  Posted Wednesday, April 18, 2007 9:36 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Assistive technologies, Deafness

• Virtual Maps for the Blind

  Researchers in Greece have developed a new system that converts video into virtual, touchable maps for the blind. The software tracks each structure and determines its shape and location. That data is used to create a three-dimensional grid of fo... Read more
  Posted Sunday, April 08, 2007 9:18 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Assistive technologies, Blindness

• IBM Technology Helps Disabled Surf the Web

  IBM this week demonstrated more than 20 new technologies, including several that make the Internet and offline applications more accessible to the disabled. A technology called Easy Web Browsing helps the elderly, people with limited vision and th... Read more
  Posted Monday, April 02, 2007 3:21 AM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Assistive technologies, Internet

• Body shop

  Bionic hands, arms, legs and feet currently under development will restore mobility and independence to people with lost limbs.... Read more
  Posted Monday, February 26, 2007 11:47 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Artificial limbs, Assistive technologies, Bionics

• Stevie Wonder presents Kurzweil-NFB Readers to blind students

  Stevie Wonder presented two Kurzweil-National Federation of the Blind Readers to students at the Stevie Wonder 11th annual House Full o... Read more
  Posted Wednesday, December 20, 2006 7:45 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 1 Comments

  Tags: Assistive technologies, Blindness

• Artificial memory aid mimics the brain's audio cues

  An artificial memory aid that mimics the way the human brain replays verbal information could help people with brain damage, Alzheimer's or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The handheld device is modelled on a function of the brain known ... Read more
  Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 6:35 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Memory, Assistive technologies

• Piloting a wheelchair with the power of the mind

  Paralyzed patients dream of the day when they can once again move their limbs. That dream is making its way to becoming a reality, thanks to a neural implant created by John Donoghue and colleagues at Brown University and Cyberkinetics Neurotechn... Read more
  Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 8:05 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Assistive technologies, Neural interfaces

• KNFB Reader featured on Good Morning America

  The Kurzweil-National Federation of the Blind Reader, which helps the blind "read" printed documents, is "one of the most exciting, most revolutionary things for blind people ever developed," John Pare of the National Federation of the Blind said in ... Read more
  Posted Tuesday, August 08, 2006 7:05 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 1 Comments

  Tags: Assistive technologies, Optical character recognition