News: Blio bets against e-reader devices

Blio bets against e-reader devices
By Maggie Shiels, BBC News Tuesday 26 Jan 2010

Software originally designed to help blind people read electronicbooks could turn the emerging e-reader industry on its head, accordingto its inventor.

Futurist and artificial intelligence expertRay Kurzweil, famed for inventions like speech-recognition software, isthe man behind Blio.

His vision is to use free software to turnany device into an e-reader, from a PC to a smartphone and fromnetbooks to tablet computers.


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Posted by Ted Mc at 26 Jan 2010, 9:44 PM
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