"No braille? No problem! This FingerReader by the Fluid Interfaces Group at the MIT Media Lab is a high-tech way to help visually impaired people read; it actually scans printed text and narrates it aloud."
Video at the link. Source: http://gizmodo.com/this-ring-scans-text-and-reads-it-aloud-for-visually-im-1525373479

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Both of these have already been widely posted on Twitter & elsewhere, but info worth sharing. If I had the spare time, I'd volunteer myself, but I'm already committed to subtitling an information video for work.

AMARA: http://blog.universalsubtitles.org/volunteer/

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