#Blind people can now effectively eethanks to a brilliant new British invention glasses that tell wearers what they are looking at Blind people can now effectively eethanks to a brilliant new British invention glasses that tell wearers what they are looking at. The glasses, which contain tiny cameras, can identify everything from shop doorways to the contents of a fridge giving a verbal commentary through a phone app and earpiece. Users can even have printed text read out loud simply by pointing at the words, while those with partial sight can zoom in as they need. Astonishingly facial recognition software will instantly tell the user not only the name of an approaching person but their job and date of any previous meeting. Fans of the TV series Star trek: The next Generation might spot a resemblance to the device used by the blind character Lieutenant commander Geordi La Forge. The software, developed by London-based Vision Technologies and sold under the Givevision brand, instantly analyses a stream of images. Once an object or street scene has been recorded, subsequent encounters are announced through an earpiece. The wearer can also tag images of a person face by speaking their name out loud while filming, adding snippets of information and filing in a contacts list. The high-tech glasses can be taught to recognise everything from the entrance and type of shop to bus stops the number of an approaching bus and any empty seats on it. The system, being tested by 1, 000 users, is expected to cost between £50 and £75 a month and could be included in mobile phone packages from next year c
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