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SEEING-EYE APP

BY ANTHONY CUTHBERTSON

@ADCuthbertson

GOOD SCIENCE

THE FIRST TIME Mark Edwards used Aipoly Vision, he cried. Edwards, 56 and legally blind since birth, had signed up as an early tester for the app that helps visually impaired people “see” what’s around them. “When it immediately told me what was surrounding me, I was completely overcome with tears of joy,” he says.

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Newsweek International
8th April 2016
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