{"title":"Health and Medicine","authors":"S. Miyata","doi":"10.5860/choice.49-3054","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Twenty years ago, Telesensory, Mountain View, California was formed to develop and market technological aids for blind people. Its initial product was a spinoff device called the Optacon, an innovation that permitted the blind and the deaf-blind to read--not just braille transcriptions but anything in print. The Optacon combined optical and electronic technology and incorporated research performed at Stanford Research Institute under the sponsorship of NASA's Ames Research Center. Last year TeleSensory introduced an even more exciting aid for the blind, a second generation spinoff that not only permits the user to \"read\" printed words but also provides access to the electronic information available on most","PeriodicalId":9863,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Engineering","volume":"2016 1","pages":"290-292"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2012-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Chemical Engineering","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.49-3054","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q","JCRName":"Chemical Engineering","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Twenty years ago, Telesensory, Mountain View, California was formed to develop and market technological aids for blind people. Its initial product was a spinoff device called the Optacon, an innovation that permitted the blind and the deaf-blind to read--not just braille transcriptions but anything in print. The Optacon combined optical and electronic technology and incorporated research performed at Stanford Research Institute under the sponsorship of NASA's Ames Research Center. Last year TeleSensory introduced an even more exciting aid for the blind, a second generation spinoff that not only permits the user to "read" printed words but also provides access to the electronic information available on most
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Chemical Engineering is published monthly by Access Intelligence, primarily for chemical engineers and related technical people in the chemical process industries (CPI), as well as at engineering, design and construction companies that serve the CPI. The CPI consist of: chemicals, including petrochemicals; drugs and cosmetics; explosives and ammunition; fats and oils; fertilizers and agricultural chemicals; foods and beverages; leather tanning and finishing; lime and cement; synthetic fibers; metallurgical and metal products; paints and coatings; petroleum refining and coal products; plastics; rubber; soap and detergents; stone, clay, glass and ceramics; wood, pulp, paper and board; other chemically processed products.