The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
--Helen Keller
Cell Phone That Reads to The Blind: If you have normal vision and can read, there are thousands of things you do every day without even thinking even about it, little problems you solve with just a glance -- like knowing which coffee bag in a hotel is caffeinated or decaf. James Gashel is blind, but he can distinguish the difference with help from his cell phone. "All you have to do is snap a picture of the bag, and it tells you," he says. A new cell phone offers the smallest text-to-speech reading device ever built, a device especially useful for people like James, who have with impaired vision.
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