Tag archive: Ray Kurzweil

The ebook market is only a few years old, and is already showing signs of struggling with the same DRM and proprietary format issues that plagued the digital music industry for years. Just when the industry looked to be eyeing the open ePub format, here comes another contender: Blio, from long-time technology innovator Ray Kurzweil. But Blio will be more than an ebook format: it will be a platform available for a wide range of devices, and… Read More

Launched yesterday at the Technology, Entertainment and Design conference in Long Beach, Singularity University is going to be an institution with a difference. Its chancellor will be futurist Ray Kurzweil, whose 2005 book gave the place its name. It will be housed at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, and Google has donated $1 million to help fund it, while other big companies have also given money. But the… Read More

K-NFB Reading Technology has announced a new line of mobile readers which puts text-to-speech technology into a Nokia N82 smartphone: combined with the N82′s high-resolution camera, the knfbReader Mobile enables users to take pictures of printed materials like menus, signs, notes, and everyday items have the material read back to them at the touch of a button. The combination represents the smallest text-to-speech device in history, and… Read More