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Daily Living

Devices and services to provide support for everyday life.
A smartphone's screen featuring a sidewalk cafe's sign written with chalk. A label from the app displays what's written. The tag line above the phone says, "Instantly read text from any surface".

An app that verbally translates the visual world into spoken words, helping blind and visually impaired people by using the smartphone camera, artificial intelligence and OCR (Optical Character Recognition).

A smartphone's screen featuring purple flowers. Above the flowers is a label with the same color as the flowers and the words written in white: Dark Magenta (Purple).

An app for the iOS mobile devices that will identify the colors from the camera in real-time or identify colors within a saved photo.

An iPad's screen with a listing of My Places: such as Shared places, Arts & Entertainment, College & University, Food, Great Outdoors, Nightlife Spot, Professional & Other Places, Residence, Shop & Service, and Travel & Transport. Each of these categories have an icon, a slide button that in this example reads "on", and a number for Places and People in each category. The topmost line is also "on" and it has the search icon, wrench, and settings icon.

An accessible GPS-app developed for the blind and visually impaired. Paired with third-party navigation apps, BlindSquare’s self-voicing app delivers detailed points of interest and intersections for safe, reliable travel both outside and inside.

Nutrition facts and ingredients of a food product magnified on a phone screen.

An app with a built-in flashlight/torch. It reads tiny print and can be used at restaurants, movie theaters, or anywhere else with low light.

A mobile phone's screen featuring menu options, including play, share, link Dropbox and delete.

An accessible recorder that has been created with speed and ease of use in mind. Its menus are very comprehensive and graphics have been minimalized to ensure swift navigation for users with screen reading. 

Scan screen featuring QR code and barcode being scanned. The caption reads "Flashing fast. Flightlight Supported."

An app that includes an all-in-one scanner that scans all standard 1D and 2D code types. It can also scan and view product details on Google, amazon.com or amazon.co.jp.

A mobile phone's screen featuring buttons for QR scanner, camera, and gallery, with scan history and preferences below.

A QR Code and Bar Code Scanner app. This app uses Google Vision API for scanning and translating, and users can turn on Auto Focus and Flashlight to read the bar code or QR code.
 

A closeup of a bee on a flower.

An app that helps users read small prints at near distances and signs at far distances. Users can place a phone camera close to small objects or use the app as a microscope. 

A mobile phone screen featuring the Taj Mahal with text over it that reads "Taj Mahal" and a caption above the screenshot that reads "Recognize Landmarks".

A camera with a speech that can recognize images and speak out what it finds. It recognizes almost any image, including logos, landmarks, books, products, artwork, text, and more.

The timed reminder page on an iPhone. The topmost selection called Active is highlighted. This is followed by a task, Mow the Lawn with the alarm timer in red: day, date, hour. Also shown is the interval for the alarm: every 2 weeks on Saturday. There is a section for adjusting, editing, and note-making. Then there is another alarm and task, and so on.

An app with a pop-up reminder, timer and alarm alert with robust repeat scheduling, flexible snooze, and full customization, with full VoiceOver Accessibility support.