Jerusalem - based health tech firm OrCam has developed sunglasses , a tiny wearable for partially sighted users that can read and write text , and comes with facial recognition technology . It clips to the wearer 's glasses and can read text on packaging and newspapers , recognise the denomination of bank notes and recognise people whose faces have been previously recorded . MyEye 's camera is linked via a cable to a device about the size of a laptop and costs $ 3,500 but is set to be upstaged by a second camera version , which does not include the cable or secondary device .
Jerusalem-based health tech firm OrCam has developed MyEye, a tiny wearable for partially sighted users that can read and translate text, and comes with facial recognition technology. It clips to the wearer's glasses and can read text on packaging and newspapers, identify the denomination of bank notes and recognise people whose faces have been previously recorded. MyEye's camera is linked via a cable to a device about the size of a smartphone and costs $3,500 but is set to be upstaged by a second generation version, which does not include the cable or secondary device.