Sunday, November 28, 2010

Advances in mobile technology provide the blind with new tools

Zhenya Pankova sends and receives 200 text messages a day. That’s typical for a ninth-grader. But to read her texts, she presses her Samsung cellphone to her ear. Pankova is blind.

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  1. This was a very interesting article, I think it is great that this technoogy exists. On my phone, it wil read the texts outloud to you. It is great that we are using technology to accomodate individuals.

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  2. This is great that technology enables individuals with special needs to live life a little easier.

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