New Personal Vision Assistant Released

July 2013 — HumanWare has announced the release of Prodigi, a personal vision assistant designed to be a “more affordable and intuitive visual aid than the traditional CCTV-based electronic magnifier.”  Available in a desk version or a portable, tablet version, Prodigi allows users to magnify a letter or A4-sized page, and displays the image with “perfect text quality”. Prodigi also offers various reading modes including enhanced color contrast, single column text, scrolling text, and text-to-speech. Pierre Hamel, Vice President of Research and Development at HumanWare noted, “Until recently, the technology behind Prodigi wasn’t available, but we saw it coming and have now successfully integrated the latest camera and image processing technologies into a portable platform, specifically designed for people living with a visual impairment.”