<![CDATA[Kurzweil Develops First Seeing-Eye Cellphone - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Kurzweil Develops First Seeing-Eye Cellphone - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Kurzweil Develops First Seeing-Eye Cellphone]]> I read Fantastic Voyage, The Age of Spiritual Machines and The Singularity is Near, and they changed my life. I even found some of his lectures on Itunes and I find myself impatiently awaiting his next book.

Recently read another incredible book that I can't recommend highly enough, especially to all of you who also love Ray Kurzweil's work. The book is ""My Stroke of Insight"" by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. I had heard Dr Taylor's talk on the TED dot com site and I have to say, it changed my world. It's spreading virally all over the internet and the book is now a NYTimes Bestseller, so I'm not the only one, but it is the most amazing talk, and the most impactful book I've read in years. (Dr T also was named to Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People and Oprah had her on her Soul Series last month and I hear they're making a movie about her story so you may already have heard of her)
If you haven't heard Dr Taylor's TEDTalk, that's an absolute must. The book is more and deeper and better, but start with the video (it's 18 minutes). Basically, her story is that she was a 37 yr old Harvard brain scientist who had a massive stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain. Because of her knowledge of how the brain works, and thanks to her amazingly loving and kind mother, she eventually fully recovered (and that part of the book detailing how she did it is inspirational).

There's a lot of learning and magic in the book, but the reason I so highly recommend My Stroke of Insight to this discussion, is because we have powerfully intelligent left brains that are rational, logical, sequential and grounded in detail and time, and then we have our kinesthetic right brains, where we experience intuition and peace and euphoria. Now that Kurzweil has got us taking all those vitamins and living our best ""Fantastic Voyage"" , the absolute necessity is that we read My Stroke of Insight and learn from Dr Taylor how to achieve balance between our right and left brains. Enjoy!

SarahBecton

]]> <![CDATA[Kurzweil Develops First Seeing-Eye Cellphone]]> The GPS software is available as well. It's an adaptation of Wayfinder called Wayfinder Access. As for the N95, the camera is a bit inferior to the 82 so it's not officially supported. Not sure if you could buy the software and try it, but wihout a demo it's a big risk. The software will ship February 15 and then be mine. :)

jsquared

]]> <![CDATA[Kurzweil Develops First Seeing-Eye Cellphone]]> Wow a pda strapped to a point-and-shoot camera. That's a huge burden.

Remember when portable computers used to need 2 people to carry them. That's awkward.

This is a fantastic idea.

Maxwells_Nylon_Hammer

]]> <![CDATA[Kurzweil Develops First Seeing-Eye Cellphone]]> This is great technology - would be even more useful to the VI community if the reading feature would tie into a Maps/GPS program, a sort of walking/talking map for improved mobility for blind and visually impaired.

nomadness

]]> <![CDATA[Kurzweil Develops First Seeing-Eye Cellphone]]> @kadtech: "The keyboards came out of Ray Kurzweil's studies to makes devices for the blind"

Stevie Wonder was a big fan of the first reading machine and contacted Ray. A relationship formed which eventually lead to the creation of a company to work on electronic instruments. So Kurzweil Keyboards is at best an indirect result of the reading machine.

DarthGator

]]> <![CDATA[Kurzweil Develops First Seeing-Eye Cellphone]]> They should just call it the EyePhone for all the free press they'll get.

"The EyePhone is coming monday... Giz Knows"

nutbastard

]]> <![CDATA[Kurzweil Develops First Seeing-Eye Cellphone]]> The keyboards came out of Ray Kurzweil's studies to makes devices for the blind

kadtech

]]> <![CDATA[Kurzweil Develops First Seeing-Eye Cellphone]]> I love Kurzweil, they have guided me through uni and now my masters. the ability to tern my journals, assignments and exam essays into audio makes it easier for me to learn, revise and develop my knowledge efficiently..

Thanks Kurzweil

The Full English Please!!

]]> <![CDATA[Kurzweil Develops First Seeing-Eye Cellphone]]> Yes Kurzweil does keyboards too.

DarthGator

]]> <![CDATA[Kurzweil Develops First Seeing-Eye Cellphone]]> I thought Kurzweil were the keyboard people...

TheRunningboard7

]]> <![CDATA[Kurzweil Develops First Seeing-Eye Cellphone]]> See the light of day? It's done, released.

DarthGator

]]> <![CDATA[Kurzweil Develops First Seeing-Eye Cellphone]]> This will probably work on n95 or e90. Could use it to read out the news while driving.

kevininstereo

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