AirType, A Keyboardless Keyboard !

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A new project is on the way, it still in its early phase, but it seems very interesting. AirType , a new input method that will make you get rid of your soft and hard keyboard.

How It Works

Do you hate your smartphone or your tablet's soft keyboard, did you always wanted to use your computer's big keyboard, AirType will give you this possibility to use it wherever you are and without the need of carrying it. The announced project is a system that uses a pair of cuff or wristbands sensor that go around your wrists and over the knuckles. The device track your finger movements to detect which keys you’re virtually striking, on your tablet and smartphone keyboard.

The accessories will come with a dedicated App that would include text prediction and correction, and it will be connected to your tablet via Bluetooth, AirType will work like voice recognition software..

Check it out

As the project still in its early phase, you can check out the concept in this video.

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FingerReader Ring, A Device To Help The Vision-Impaired People Reading

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Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab "MIT" came with a new unbelievable technology, the FingerReader, it is a ring that enables blinds and vision impaired people to read any printed text just by placing their fingers on the wanted text after wearing the device !

How it works

The FingerReader is a wearable 3D printed device in the form of a ring, this small device contain even a smaller camera that goes through the text and scans the letters, and then, the device reads the traversed text out loud for you in real time ! The FingerReader is not only for blinds, the device can be also used for translation if you were on a trip...

According the MIT website "The FingerReader is a wearable device that assists in reading printed text. It is a tool both for visually impaired people that require help with accessing printed text, as well as an aid for language translation. "

Another amazing thing, if the user is getting away from the text, a vibration is triggered to alert him to go back in line.

Future

This is the first technology to help the blinds reading in real-time, but, a little problem is still under solving, the FingerReader cannot read from touch screens like tablets.., it can only read papers, as the device is still a prototype, the final product will surely contain this feature. 

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