HandSight Featured in New Scientist

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.

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We design, build, and evaluate new interactive tools and techniques to address pressing societal challenges. Makeability refers both to how our technological innovations make new abilities possible for humans as well as our educational mission to help students gain new abilities as they learn and grow through research, invention, and human-centered design.

HandSight Featured in New Scientist

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