Re: [H] Portable eye. In your phone.

First time cramming compatible components in? I can see it. Next year it should be < $200. On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:45 AM, maccrawj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > $2600 of software to do essentially OCR to text to speech on a cellphone? > Sounds like someone is being robbed blind! > > Great idea

Re: [H] Portable eye. In your phone.

$2600 of software to do essentially OCR to text to speech on a cellphone? Sounds like someone is being robbed blind! Great idea for sure, but I don't get the price tag. G.Waleed Kavalec wrote: http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2008/10/26/the_possibilities_of_a_portable_eye/ B

[H] Portable eye. In your phone.

http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2008/10/26/the_possibilities_of_a_portable_eye/ But then it becomes apparent what's unique about Smith's phone: A flash goes off when he snaps a picture of the menu, and a few seconds later, his phone has translated the page of text into speech, a