Aiding the blind with RFID
S.J. Chin, Founder of GaiShan Technology has a firm belief that RFID can play a huge role in improving the quality of everyday life for those with visual impairments.
TellMate is a system which employs passive RFID tags to help the blind identify objects they use in their daily lives but have difficulty recognizing.
The TellMate has three main RFID function buttons: one for recording a description of an object to which a tag is attached, one to play that recording and one to stop the playback. To identity an object—a credit card, for instance—a user would attach an RFID label to it, hold the handheld reader within 2 centimeters of the label, press the record button and speak a description of the object into the handheld.
TellMate is a system which employs passive RFID tags to help the blind identify objects they use in their daily lives but have difficulty recognizing.
The TellMate has three main RFID function buttons: one for recording a description of an object to which a tag is attached, one to play that recording and one to stop the playback. To identity an object—a credit card, for instance—a user would attach an RFID label to it, hold the handheld reader within 2 centimeters of the label, press the record button and speak a description of the object into the handheld.
posted by Dave at Wednesday, August 22, 2007
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