His new job is selling "sight on demand" to blind people on both sides of the Tasman. And Jonathan Mosen, a long-time advocate for the blind, hopes to encourage Kiwi airports, universities and retailers to get behind a cloud-based service that lets blind people call on help navigating unfamiliar surroundings. "The product it's selling is essentially 'sight on demand for blind' people," he said. There are 12,000 people who are registered with the Blind Foundation as being blind, and about 80 per cent of people went blind later in life, Mosen said. "Businesses don't tend to have staff sitting around waiting to help," Mosen said.

Source: Stuff October 06, 2018 23:15 UTC