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Luke Hines, aged 27, became blind in one eye and has only 3 per cent vision in the otherafter he underwent an operation to remove a brain tumor in 1997. In an interview with The Sun newspaper, Luke, from Devon, England said: "Something as simple as going to Tesco I used to hate doing because I would just go, get the same things every time and get out of there." However, with his new specs, shopping has now become a completely different experience. "Now I can spend hours up there just trying to read everything. It's really nice being able to do it without having to rely on someone else."
The Or-Cam device is a small camera that can be worn in the same way as Google Glass. It is connected by a thin cable to a portable computer and can fit in the wearer's pocket. This then clips onto the wearer's glasses via the use of a magnet, which then offers clear speech as it reads aloud the words or objects pointed to by the user. Priced at just US$2,500 — it recognizes English-language text.
Luke has suffered greatly due to his handicap and was unable to go to school because of his visual impairment. However, life has taken a turn for the better and through the use of Or-Cam, Luke is now able to do so much more. He is hoping to go onto college and eventually become a gardener. In an interview with The Sun, Luke's mother, Jane Jinen said: "It's such a delight because if it can give Luke a quality of life that we have got and he can go to college, it would just be overwhelming."
We have robots and robot produced voices all informing how we should think, hear, and feel. And now we have a robotic voice giving health advice and how our eyes should see the world. This truly is a world of idiocracy
If a person has a question about services and what not, we have to go through a barrage of computer generated robotic voices before we can even hear a real person.
Now we have devices that rebuild the human body, all at a cost I might add for those that can afford it. As for the plebs, sorry, your Sell by Date has expired. This technology does not stretch that far
What will we become a people who speak like a robotic voice pre-programmed to respond to the some algorithm.
Why not find the real issues of blindness and how to treat them in a natural way.