What is LookTel?
LookTel Money Reader is now available for Mac OS X!
LookTel is a planned suite of assistive solutions for people with visual impairments
or blindness. Designed for the accessible iPhone and Mac laptop and desktop computers, LookTel will automatically scan and recognize objects such as money, packaged goods, CDs, DVDs, and medication bottles, as well as landmarks.
Recognition will happen
in real-time and without delay – there's no need to hold the device
still or take a photo and wait for a result.
LookTel Money
Reader for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and Mac OS X instantly recognizes
US currency and speaks the denomination. Available now in the iTunes App Store and Mac App Store.
Click here to learn more about the LookTel
Money Reader.
Click here to learn more about LookTel's solutions
under development.
Partners
LookTel was developed under sponsorship from the National Institute of Health (NIH), National Eye Institute (NEI), and is the recipient of the following Grants: 1R43EY016953-01 & 2R44EY016953-0. Blindwisdom Inc. (www.blindwisdom.org) Many individual end users and researchers at the Atlanta Research Education Foundation(AREF) of the Veteran's Administration have collaborated with us to evaluate LookTel in end user trials.
Awards
In early versions, LookTel was awarded third place in the CTIA E-Tech Awards 2008 (Consumer Mobile Application - Healthcare/Public Safety). LookTel was also a runner up in the AT&T devCentral Fast-Pitch Platinum Awards 2009. A final version of LookTel
was awarded first place at CTIA E-Tech Awards 2010 in the Mobile
Applications - Healthcare category. LookTel also integrates with IPPLEX's mobile healthcare solution which was awarded first place in the CTIA E-Tech Awards 2009.
LookTel Money Reader for iPhone launched in March to overwhelming praise from critics and users alike, earning a 5-star review average and a featured spot in the Apple App Store's "What's Hot" Category.
LookTel has also been featured by the New York Times, The Huffington Post, Tech Crunch, Engadget, and several other major publications. Additionally, LookTel has been selected as the winner of the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) Chairma's
Awards for Advancements in Accessibility. The award, which recognizes outstanding efforts to advance communications accessibility for people with disabilities, was awarded in Washington D.C. on October 28th 2011.
FCC Chairman's AAA Award Winner
