It is good to hear that products are being developped for the benifit of the blind community. But what iam interested to know from the developpers is why on earth the otherwise benificial products failed to find their place in the market? I remember reading an exciting news item namely the reading machine christened eNETRA invented by a student in agra. I was unable to get further info from the particular tamil daily that featured the news, nor from any NGO'S working for the blind. Had not a student from MIT invented the world's first reading machine for the blind, we would not have heard of OCR technology. I love to see research students developping more and more products for their blind brothers and sisters. What happened to the money identifier developped by students with IIT mumbai? Or for the modern cane by students in IIT, delhi for that matter. Do the researchers lack funding or worrried about marketing? Can't some NGO'S working for the blind help bring those products out of the labs? Let us encourage the young researchers and tell them of this wonderfull forum called accessindia. What do my fellow accessindians think? Let me hear from you all. We are talking about screen readers costing as much as the PC'S AND MOBILE SCREEN READERS PROVE NO INFFERIOR IN TERMS OF COST. Do you not feel that an indegenously developped product make things affordable? With warm regards solomon. teachs...@gmail.com
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