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Scout
The world around you, described - for real, for free, forever.
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The everyday stuff that stops being a problem
Reading a label. Counting your change. Picking out the right pill. Things that take a sighted person two seconds and everyone else a phone call or a stranger's help. Scout fills the gap.
“A hundred-dollar bill sitting on a wooden table — the back side, with Independence Hall and the gold one-hundred mark in the corner. Just the one bill in view. Want me to look for anything else around it?”
“A weekly pill organizer on the counter, lid open. Looks like you're on the last compartment — a single white pill left. The other compartments still have a mix of orange, cream, and white tablets. There's a half-empty blister pack behind it. Want me to read the writing on the blister?”
“Two menus on the table from a place called Mead's — one says Breakfast Menus, the other Lunch and Dinner. Breakfast has Classic Eggs, Florentine Omelette, Breakfast Tacos. Want me to read the lunch sandwiches?”
“A red STOP sign, big white letters, mounted on a metal pole. Trees behind it. Quiet stretch — nothing else in the frame.”
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Why Scout exists
The problem.
Most of the physical world wasn't built to describe itself. A medication label, a restaurant menu, a sign in a hallway, the cash in your hand. Sighted people glance and know. If you can't see them, you're stuck asking someone else, or guessing, or walking away without the information you came for.
What Scout does about it.
Point your phone at anything. Scout describes it out loud right away, and you can hold the button and ask in your own words to dig in: “what does the warning label say?”, “what color is this shirt?”, “how much money is on the table?” Follow-ups carry, so you can keep asking about the same thing until you've got what you need.
Tell us how it's going
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