On October 17, 2018 at the National Rehabilitation Center for the Blind - Plovdiv a device for artificial sight intended for blind or partially-sighted people OrCam MyEye 2.0 was presented. On behalf of Israeli company OrCam, the main presenter was Mr. Irie Meltzer, and on the Bulgarian side, Mr. Yavor Bozhinov helped with translation.
This is a thumbnail sized device which allows reading of any text from different surfaces, real-time face recognition, product identification, banknotes, credit cards, and more. The light and comfortable camera is magnetically attached to the frames of glasses, plus LED lights for dark and miniature speakers. It is easily managed with simple hand gestures. I can remember up to 2 million barcodes - all registered in Bulgaria and up to 100 people and 200 sites. The presentation provoked great interest and there were guests from Gabrovo, Dryanovo and from other places.
After the short presentation, anyone who wished had the opportunity to test the device's capabilities. The company said they are working hard to develop and improve the product's capabilities and we all expect it to reach consumers faster.
Three month Report on the Financial Performance of the NRCB-Plovdiv and three month report on the activities performed for the period 01.07.2018-31.09.2018
From August 1, 2018, the NRCB launched a project to support integrated students with visual impairments by facilitating their work with books, books, textbooks, and other study materials.
The project is financed by EVN Bulgaria and is worth BGN 19,509.37.
Two Pearl Open Book readers and two laptops have been purchased and operated under the project. Topaz PHD is also purchased for the visually impaired users as well as a printer for printing the necessary materials.
With the purchased equipment in the NRCB, a Resource Center was established, where integrated pupils and students with visual difficulties can scan their textbooks and use them in digital format.
A specialist trained to help, educate and inform users about the use of the resources works at the Resource Center.
Seminar-training of visually impaired students for independent work with the technical means is to be held.
On September 17, 2018, the autumn course for computer skills begins. The trainees will make their first steps in the world of computers, discover the infinite information, music and communication capabilities of the digital era. Gradually, with the initial acquaintance with the computer, the keys, and keyboard shortcuts for its management and speech programs, the students will get more inward and more skillfully using the equipment.
Working with files and folders, understanding the logic of data deployment, renaming, moving, copying, or deleting - all will be learned in the first two weeks of the course. The next days are designed to familiarize with the individual programs involved in the course - listening to music files - Winamp, reading text or a book - Balabolka, for playing video clips and listening to the subtitles - KMPlayer. We continue with WinWord, the most popular word-writing and word processing program, Mozilla Thunderburd, an e-mail management email client, Mozilla Firefox, for browsing and browsing the web, and finding the right content tailored to our tastes or quests.
The course ends with Skype – a free message and call program.
Created on July 2018, the Technology council is a structure that will provide information and knowledge exchange among visually impaired people across the country about technical devices, software products and systems designed for use by visually impaired people, promote and support innovation, adoption, adaptation and / or adopting new technological solutions for them.
Goals of the Technology council: Enhancing the capacity of organizations and people with disabilities to work and be part of the process of technological adaptation of modern ICT for independent living and social integration of visually impaired people.
Mission of the Technology Council: To create an environment that encourages and supports innovation, stimulates the adoption, adaptation and / or adoption of technological solutions for independent living and social integration of visually impaired people within an interoperable framework based on standards ) listed below.
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