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October 30, 2004 / The Sydney Morning Herald.Sadao Hasegawa, a blind man in Japan, has set up a website called Telesupport Net which uses sighted volunteers to help visually impaired people using the video capabilities of 3G mobiles.
Blind users point their mobile's built-in camera at the place or object that they want to decipher, and the sighted person on the other end of the phone can report back to them immediately....
TeleSupport NET (Japanese site)
...is a kind of "seeing eye" service that takes the video from a Keitai-phone held by a visually disabled person and channels it into a center where sighted people can interpret the physical environment for the person carrying the 3G cell-phone.
See also: http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/tronnews02-12.html
