Category Archives: Visual

Haptic device gives blind a helping hand

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — It started out life as a new video game concept but quickly morphed into a prototype with a far more practical vision — a haptic device to help the blind and visually impaired. Tacit is a wrist-mounted device which informs the wearer about the proximity of objects in complex [...]

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How Google is teaching computers to see

Full Story at  CNN.com Santa Monica, California (CNN) — Computers used to be blind, and now they can see. Thanks to increasingly sophisticated algorithms, computers today can recognize and identify the Eiffel Tower, the Mona Lisa or a can of Budweiser. Still, despite huge technological strides in the last decade or so, visual search has [...]

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