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Ok, startup idea: Inspired by the lovely scene from the movie Amélie where the titular character takes a blind man by the hand and describes in detail how the
by mortenjorck 16y ago
Ok, startup idea:
Inspired by the lovely scene from the movie Amélie where the titular character takes a blind man by the hand and describes in detail how the town square looks.
Imagine an app. Blind user uses app to take a photo and instantly send an image to a mechanical Turk service which describes the photo and returns an audio file.
This could even be done without smartphones (albeit less seamlessly). Blind user takes a photo with a cameraphone and sends it to an MMS number. User then receives a call from a call center where an agent describes the photo.
- sahillavingia 16y agoWow, that is awesome. I'm doing it. Starting now. When it's done, it'll be free - if I can afford it. Thanks for the brilliant idea I hope I do it justice.
- almost 16y agoThat's brilliant, nice one mortenjorck and sahillavingia. sahillavingia, I'd love to help, I'm sending you an email now.
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- mortenjorck 16y agoThat's fantastic! If you need any design advice, just get in touch.
- sahillavingia 16y agoA followup: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/862869303/an-iphone-app-for-the-blind http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/862869303/an-iphone-app-...
- xvw 16y agoalready exists, see http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/jbigham/vizwiz/video/ http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/jbigham/vizwiz/video/
- mortenjorck 16y agoThat looks very promising. Is it more than a proof-of-concept yet, though?