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HandSight Featured in New Scientist

Lee Stearns

By Lee Stearns

Nov 09, 2016

Image shows a small camera on top of the user's finger, self-illuminated and pointed down towards the text on a printed book.
The HandSight project was recently featured in New Scientist, a British science and technology magazine. The article described our work in using a finger-mounted camera to read printed text.

New Scientist: Tiny fingertip camera helps blind people read without braille

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