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Re: Telephone headset for blind individuals who work with screen reading soft...

--- Doug Sutherland <> wrote:
> since I built my first wearable. There are a ton of
> tiny and cheap sensors available now, and I can get
> Atel microcontrollers for $7. Free software is making
> it possible to put something together for much less
> than the past. I'm thinking convergence here, ie my
> ideas consolidate functions, and I'm thinking open
> platforms. That's all I will say for now ... other
> than I think it's time that some hacker(s) go to
> work and put tech in the hands of people who really
> need it. It will take me years to put any of these

> ....This is
> why, some day, somehow, I want to do this for the right reason,
> to help people ... because I think it the right thing to do. I
> believe if one makes a conscious decision NOT to make a large
> profit margin, or perhaps even make it a non profit org, that
> these devices could be a lot cheaper, more accessible to more
> people. Also, the free software movement WILL make a different.

I have done some looking into starting a charitable non-profit to
develop software and hardware.  Who all is interested?

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