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The Kurzweil-National Federation of the Blind Reader is a device for the people who have difficulty seeing or reading print. It has a build-in digital camera with a character recognition software.

Simply hold the reader over a print and it will scan the text and play back in clear synthetic speech, which powered by text-to-speech conversion technology. The reader can store thousands scanned documents in the memory. Users can then transfer the files to their computers.

Price: $3,495 (expected)

Product Page [via National Federation of the Blind]

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