RFID in Japan

An RFID-based system for helping visually-impaired people is being tested at Aichi Expo in Nagoya, Japan. This is another experiment by the goverment and YRP Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory. There is a movie clip with the interview of a visually-impared person who used the system. His comments are rather critical and suggest the need of other auditory information besides RFID-triggered voice messages.

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via Aichi Expo Citizen's Broadcast Station, June 10, 2005.

Posted by konomi at June 23, 2005 12:12 AM | TrackBack