Sina's passion for his field originally stems from the fact that he is mostly blind and uses assistive technologies such as a screen reader to navigate computer systems and technological devices.
By eliminating the need to retype text from print media onto the screen, Optical Character Reader saves users a great deal of time.
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How do you know who's who short of turning the screen into one giant fingerprint reader?
On paper and within the Barnes and Noble ( BKS) conference rooms, NOOKColor, a dedicated e-reader with touch-screen, color, presumably-good web browsing and even video capability, had to seem like a slam dunk.
Amazon had been hoping to target the market with its 9.7-inch screen Kindle DX e-book reader, for example, but schools said the device wasn't sufficiently interactive and lacked basics such as page numbers and color graphics.
Amazon also updated its Kindle e-reader with a self-lighting screen and clearer resolution.
Its large screen will make it an attractive e-reader and video player, but it will also inherit a vast array of games and other software from the iPhone.
In addition, the new Reader line offers users on-screen functionality to look up words and phrases with the built-in New Oxford American Dictionary, Second Edition and Oxford Dictionary of English eDictionaries, as well as 10 translation dictionaries in languages such as French, German, Spanish, Italian and Dutch.
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Amazon's first Kindle e-reader used a plastic non-rigid screen - known as an optical frontplane - to display its images.
Specs-wise, there's not much here we didn't know: the big changes are a larger 9.7-inch screen that rotates to landscape display, a PDF reader, and more storage space at 3.3GB.
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But Yota is working on dynamic apps like an e-reader and email notification system for the back screen.
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Amazon's new e-reader uses the same innovative e-Ink screen and wireless connection that made the first Kindle a modest hit in the world of digital bibliophiles.
The quarter-inch thick device, built by the publisher Hearst, features electronic ink mounted on a flexible microfoil and an 11.5-inch screen, making it the biggest, thinnest e-reader yet.
The screen technology is similar to that of a basic Kindle e-reader.
Called "Mosaic, " the app offers a visually stunning, multi-touch screen designed to enable consumers to personalize and read all of their news via one reader and offer advertisers an innovative digital advertising model to target audiences.
It also comes with a 10.1 inch LED backlit screen, a 1.3 megapixel camera, multiple USB ports and a 4-in-1 card reader to support viewing multimedia.
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Bookeen's Cybook Opus is now definitely the best eBook Reader of its kind: thanks to the very latest E-Ink electronic ink technology, its screen offers the most comfortable reading experience, comparable to paper.
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Shellen, who was the first product manager for Google Reader at Google, plans to soon release a feature called Group Shot that takes a freeze-frame screen shot photo of all the people chatting side by side.
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