Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Intel offers an e-reader, with a difference - Digits - WSJ

Electronic gadgets that help people enjoy digitized books are all the rage. Most share one assumption — that their users can read. Not so the latest offering from Intel.

The company Tuesday announced the Intel Reader, a device about the size of a paperback book that is designed to digitize printed text and read it aloud to users. Intel is not targeting book lovers who want to lighten their briefcases and backpacks; its audience, the company says, is people with poor eyesight, dyslexia or other conditions that make reading difficult or impossible...