Has anyone actually use an app to tell them the expiration date on a gallon or carton of milk? If so what app was it?
Sent from my iPhone On Apr 30, 2013, at 6:41 PM, "Andrew Head" <[email protected]> wrote: > Vizwiz already does this. You take a photo record a question and it uploads > to a server and volunteers send answers back. > This is just my humble opinion, but if you skype or facetime a person just > to get the answer to a question like what can is this or the expiary date > etc, using vizwiz or even a scanning app such as text detective seems much > quicker and more efficient, and if you were to call a stranger ask your > question and have them answer you probably in less than a minute, seems a > bit pointless use of data and time consumption when there are already other > apps out there. > I agree when you have sighted family and friends as well as other apps I've > mentioned and others, I personally feel there isn't a need for this one. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of John Diakogeorgiou > Sent: Tuesday, 30 April 2013 12:35 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: BeMyEyes: A ground braking product I'm a part of > > Hi: > Hi: > Their are people who don't have access to family or friends that can help > them sometimes. However the technology already exists to do what is being > proposed. The idea of using volunteers and Skype or facetime has more > potential. If people are concerned with privacy and not giving away their > info all they need to do is set up accounts in Skype or email that they > don't care about. > > > On 4/29/13, Lauren Simmons <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Ron, >> >> I realize the following has the probability of coming off as rude; >> especially as we all just finished discussing this reading >> comprehension point, but you have lost track of the thread. You might >> want to slow down your screen reader or take a little more time to >> carefully read messages. I >> >> have no association with this project. :) >> >> LS >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Ron Pelletier" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 6:44 AM >> Subject: RE: BeMyEyes: A ground braking product I'm a part of >> >> >> Hi Lauren, >> >> I think you have a good idea and I would like to make a donation but, >> I can't bring myself to doing so until you have something more concrete. >> Right now you seem to have good plans but they are only plans. Most of >> what you suggest already exists . I have no way of knowing if this >> will ever go to market. >> >> Ron & Danvers >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Roger Frischenmeyer >> Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2013 7:10 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: BeMyEyes: A ground braking product I'm a part of >> >> Those 2 ideas work very well, if you have family members but if not, >> they probably don't work well at all. I think this has potintial. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Lauren Simmons" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2013 5:44 PM >> Subject: Re: BeMyEyes: A ground braking product I'm a part of >> >> >> For the most part, this already exists, its called Skype. Its also >> called Facetime. The volunteers are family members. I've been doing a >> similar thing for years. :) >> >> LS >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Søren Jensen" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2013 9:16 AM >> Subject: BeMyEyes: A ground braking product I'm a part of >> >> >> Hi all. >> >> I'm involved in this cool project. Read more here: >> >> Be My Eyes is a non-profit initiative that aims to equip blind with "a >> pair of eyes" which fits into your pocket. This can be done by the >> blind at any time, on his/her smart phone: you start an application, >> and can through this be put in direct video connection with a >> voluntary sighted person. The sighted volunteer helps you through the >> camera in the blind person's smart phone to see (video transmitted to >> the helpers smart phone) what the blind person is pointing at with the >> smart phone camera and can solve a given task. The task could, for >> example. be: Reading the date on a milk carton, see if two socks are >> alike, read the buttons on the washing machine, etc. >> It >> is the blind who has control over what the volunteer sees, while the >> volunteer can for example say "a little closer" or "date is on the >> other side of the milk carton." This way the blind and the sighted >> volunteer help each other to solve the given task. >> >> The technical part of the project is, first, to develop an application >> available for the blind that can connect the users with sighted >> volunteers >> - >> here is so far developed a prototype. The second part is to develop a >> system on a server that all Be My Eyes will run on. When you create a >> user account on the system, you could choose whether you are the >> visual impaired who needs help, or if you are the sighted person who >> wants to help. The sighted help to be able both to use the system on >> an iPhone (or other smart phone platforms), an iPad tablet (or other >> tablet platforms) with a larger screen so it's easier to see the image >> and on a computer where the image is, of course, it depends on the >> screen connected to the computer. >> >> The idea is to build a network of volunteers who want to help. You can >> even sign in and out anything useful, and you can specify what time of >> the day or week you have time to help, where you will be notified >> accordingly. If technology allows, then the visually impaired also use >> the app over 3G and 4G, making the possibilities endless, since in >> this way you can use the system anywhere. This requires of course that >> as a visually impaired learn some techniques to use the camera >> properly. The advantage of video interview is that the sighted >> volunteer can guide one to use the camera properly, which eventually >> becomes better and better. >> >> The team behind Be My Eyes is a mixture of blind, partly sighted and >> sighted people who know the depth of the problems the project to >> solve. All involved have contributed on a strictly volunteer basis. >> >> The idea stems from Hans Jørgen Wiberg who himself is visually impaired. >> Hans Jørgen works as a visually impaired consultant in the Danish >> Blind Society. Here he experienced countless times to sighted >> assistance in a moment would have made the blind able to solve a >> variety of tasks on their own. When Hans tried video conferencing on >> his smart phone "dropped the pieces in place" - through a voluntary >> network could be in the moments when the blind was faced with tasks >> that required vision, get assistance via video chat on your mobile! >> >> We are looking for volunteer programmers, visually impaired as impaired. >> The >> advantage is that a visually impaired programmer familiar with the >> challenges of accessibility, and a sighted programmer to help with the >> visual. We are looking for both people who create applications for PC >> / Mac, iOS and server based systems. >> >> In order to implement this exciting project, we are also looking for >> financial help, as all in the team is working volunteer and we need >> some help outside the company as programmers and such, which is not cheap. >> >> If you want that all this comes true, then you can donate to us on >> Indiegogo at the following link: >> www.indiegogo.com/projects/be-my-eyes-community-help-for-the-blind >> >> Read more on our website at: >> http://www.facebook.com/l/0AQHAl41NAQG333R7tdGulVawm-wGyuVVtA68MvtPCYS >> jfg/ >> >> www.bemyeyes.org >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >> Google >> Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, 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