[gui-talk] only partially on-topic: more electronic books, and ways to identify objects

[Hoffman, Allen]

FYI
 
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Project puts 1M books online for
blind, dyslexic
PhysOrg.com May 6, 2010
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The nonprofit Internet Archive in
San Francisco has hired hundreds of
people to scan thousands of books
into its digital database so they
can be read by the software and
devices that blind people use to
convert written pages into speech.
The project will initially make one
million books available free (under
a special license) to the visually...
http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=12129&m=51300
 
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Project explores the 'internet of
things'
PhysOrg.com May 5, 2010
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Researchers from University College
London have developed a digital tool
that allows people to attach
memories to objects in the form of
text, audio or video. Users upload
an image of the object and an
associated memory in the form of
text, audio or video to the
project's website or using an iPhone
app. Objects are tagged using RFID
tags...
http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=12132&m=51300
 
 
 
Allen Hoffman