[real-eyes] Re: Moble Eyes
- From: "Paul L. Mimms" <p_mimms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 10:07:55 -0400
I will be seeing the device again on April 18 I can say the legs serve as a
way to line up a sheet of paper 8.5 x 11, and will serve as a guide for
smaller documents. For larger ones, you will have to hold the device up,
like in reading a large menu. I can't remember what voice it used, but with
Guerilla's OCR devices, they use some of the RealSpeak voices. I will let
you know more later.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Reginald George" <sgeorge@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 11:00 PM
Subject: [real-eyes] Re: Moble Eyes
> So was this Mobile eyes any smaller? Seems like it might line up to paper
> easier. Did it use Eloquence speech? Anything else yu remember? Just
> curious.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul L. Mimms" <p_mimms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 2:57 PM
> Subject: [real-eyes] Re: Moble Eyes
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>
> I saw this about a month ago. It is definitely being marketed to be
> competition for the KNFB portable reader, which I also have seen. I can't
> say I have compared them side-by-side, though. I was told, however, the
> price of MobileEyes is the same as the price of the KNFB reader, a bit
> over
> $3200.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Reginald George" <sgeorge@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 12:21 AM
> Subject: [real-eyes] Moble Eyes
>
>
>> This product would appear to compete directly with the NFB Kurzweil
>> reader. Wonder how they compare in size, weight, speed of recognition,
>> accuracy, and price?
>> This is from the accessible devices list.
>>
>> Reg
>>
>> This is all the information we currently have on this new product.
>> New Mobile Eyes Portable Text To Speech Scanner
>> Guerilla Technologies Inc, a Florida based company, exhibited their new
>> Portable
>> Reading Machine/Magnifier for the visually impaired at the 2007 ATIA
>> (Assistive Technology
>> Industry Association) Conference last month. The company's device named
>> MobilEyes
>> [Mobile Eyes] has proprietary software running on one of the emerging
>> UMPC
>> industry's
>> tablet sized computers. Currently, the Samsung Q1 has the task of
>> supporting Optical Character Recognition
>> (OCR), Text-to-Speech output, Live Picture and Still Photograph
>> Magnification, and
>> a host of other multimedia transfer, storage, and playback options.
>> With the aid of a ten mega pixel camera mounted to the rear side of the
>> unit, a visually
>> impaired person can point the device in the direction of presumed text
>> and, in a few seconds, hear any words visible within the photograph, read
>> out loud. Practical
>> uses are: reading the menu in a restaurant, wall mounted signs containing
>> text information,
>> newspapers, magazines, mail, advertisements, or products in a grocery
>> store not easily
>> identified by the shape of the container/box. The MobilEyes Reader can
>> even recognize
>> a UPC barcode and identify the product, brand/manufacturer and size of an
>> item. When
>> used as a video magnifier, a person can enlarge the view of any item on
>> the MobilEyes'
>> 7 inch video screen or connect to any computer monitor for even greater
>> magnification.
>> Although you might say to yourself, "Even with 20/20 vision, I would have
>> a hard
>> time aiming and shooting good photographs," having a portable camera
>> stand
>> that steadies
>> and aligns the device to an 8 1/2 X 11 inch sheet of paper alleviates any
>> such difficulty for a MobilEyes user.
>> A Professional model comes with a portable flatbed scanner that can even
>> identify
>> US currency.
>> While not commenting on other functions the MobilEyes Reader may perform
>> in the future,
>> Guerilla Technologies stated goal was to combine, "a variety of assistive
>> technology
>> devices into one." For more information about their Portable and
>> Stand-Alone Readers,
>> including how to contact the company, see their website:
>> www.GuerillaTechnologies.com
>>
>> or
>> www.MyMobilEyes.com
>>
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