Week 5 (Microsoft Cognitive Services: Introducing the Seeing App)

This article about an app that facilitates blind people’s lives. This app works on smartphones but also with special glasses. These glasses are still a prototype but they represent a major advance in technology. This app/glasses practically sees for the person using it. It can recognize people’s gender and emotions, things happening and can also read words by taking a photo. Since the person is obviously blind, the app also tells him/her how to move the phone so the picture is taken correctly and then reads the words out loud.

I think that this invention is unbelievable. For me, this is the real meaning and purpose of technology; to help facilitate people’s lives. Blind people face many difficulties in their life because one of the things that we need the most to function is our sight. We need to see things! This is why I am very proud and happy for this new advance in technology and the effect it will have in blind people. This also makes me feel very excited for the new inventions and advances awaiting to emerge in technology.

http://winphonemetro.com/2016/03/microsoft-cognitive-services-inteligencia-artificial-personas-ciegas