How to Use Your Smartphone As Your New Set of Eyes
Thinking you need contacts or Lasik surgery to be able to see your way from point A or point B? Well, think again. Courtesy of Google, now there's an app for that.
Google has released two new Android applications to help make navigating through life a bit easier for both the visually impaired and navigationally challenged. The applications, WalkyTalky and Intersection Explorer, work with Google Maps to deliver spoken walking directions and provide users the opportunity to explore the layout of their route or neighborhood streets before venturing out.
As the name implies, WalkyTalky is essentially the audio version of Google Maps. Users enter or select their address among favorites and the app immediately begins reading walking directions aloud.
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