OrCam Technologies has been named a CES® 2022 Innovation Awards Honoree in both the Accessibility and Health & Wellness categories for the OrCam MyEye PRO, a revolutionary AI-driven, voice-activated wearable technology device for people who are blind, visually impaired or have reading challenges. This is the company’s third consecutive win for the annual CES Innovation Awards.
OrCam MyEye PRO is a wearable assistive technology device for people who are blind, visually impaired or have reading challenges. Lightweight and the size of a finger, OrCam MyEye PRO magnetically mounts on eyeglass frames. With OrCam MyEye PRO, users are able to independently explore their surroundings by enabling access to any printed text (books, menus, signs), digital screens (computer, smartphone), as well as recognize faces, and identify products/bar codes, money notes and colors – all in real-time and offline.
The interactive Smart Reading feature enables users to tailor their assistive reading experience, and Orientation assists with guidance and identification of objects. Newly released “Hey OrCam” [video] enables control of all device features and settings hands-free, using voice commands.
“Developed in direct response to our user’s feedback, OrCam MyEye PRO enables an entirely new level of accessibility for people with visual impairments and those with reading challenges,” said Prof. Amnon Shashua, OrCam Technologies Co-founder and Co-Chairman. “The new integrations allow OrCam MyEye PRO to listen to, comprehend, and respond to natural voice commands, thereby transforming the device’s complete operation into an intuitive and enjoyable user experience.”
“OrCam MyEye is a huge step, as a tool for people who are blind or visually impaired, toward furthering their independence," said Herb Miller, father of an OrCam MyEye user. “With all of my son's skills, knowledge, and technologies, he nevertheless lives with a frustrating reality requiring urgent – and sometimes unexpected – visual assistance to complete a simple task. OrCam MyEye has given him the confidence and independence to carry out these tasks.”
The device has only one tactile button, a touch-sensitive swipe bar, and the notable absence of any screen. The user operates it by simply looking, speaking (voice commands) or using intuitive hand gestures, making OrCam MyEye PRO the only assistive technology device in the world that can be activated and controlled in this manner.
OrCam Technologies is globally awarded for its highly advanced, AI-driven solutions – which pack easy-to-use, innovative tech into wearable and handheld assistive technology platforms that significantly empower tens of thousands of users worldwide. OrCam MyEyewas chosen as a 2021 Medical Design Excellence Awards (MDEA) winner, a TIME Magazine Best Invention of 2019 and won the prestigious Last Gadget Standing competition top prize at CES 2018. Just last month, the handheld OrCam Read device was also named a TIME Magazine Best Invention of 2021.
OrCam will exhibit at CES 2022, the world’s most influential technology event, taking place January 5-8, 2022, in Las Vegas, NV, in the Health & Wellness section, located in the LVCC North Hall - Booth # 8527.