People unlucky enough to have lost their vision typically will learn Braille to read specially printed text with their fingers. But what if you’re blind and just want to go to a local bookstore and browse? There are already screen readers and optical character recognition software, but researchers at MIT are shooting for a solution that will more closely resemble traditional reading. The FingerReader device is a large ring that slips on a finger and features a front facing camera that scans the text that the finger is pointing to. Smart software powering the device recognizes the line of text under the finger and reads only that line.
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