“EYES” FOR THE BLIND
PRINT CONVERTED INTO SOUND LONDON, Aug. 27. Two American radio engineers have produced an invention by which the blind can “read” the printed page. Its possibilities are being considered by a committee at St. Dunstan’s under Professor E. D. Adrian, of Cambridge University. The invention comprises a tube the size of a flat, fountain pen linked by wires with a tall box containing batteries and radio values. Lightweight earphones are plugged into the box. As the tube is moved along the lines of print the letters are Ruminated by a tiny spot of light. The patterns they reflect into the tube are converted into a series of sounds which with practice can be read as easily and quickly as morse. The invention will be further improved before commercial models, which are expected to oust the Braille system, are manufactured.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 271, 28 August 1946, Page 5
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