Thursday, January 2, 2014

Executive Life; Seeing Shadows, Deciphering Speech

Executive Life; Seeing Shadows, Deciphering Speech

IF you think the sound of your alarm clock is annoying, you should hear Barry Honig's. When it blares, ''It's 5:30, time to get up,'' he says, his wife threatens to throw it out the window.
Mr. Honig is blind, and the talking alarm clock is just one of many devices he relies on, from a hand-held laser that helps him coordinate his clothes to a JAWS for Windows computer-screen reader that tells him what he is typing, reads his e-mail aloud and describes Web sites to him.

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