Innovative tech at Cambridge open day

This is software that reads text out loud almost instantly from any photographable source, such as a bus timetable, menu or street sign.

The mobile-phone application — called CapturaTalk — is a product from Cambridge company Iansyst. It aims to help dyslexic users who need easy access to written information in their daily lives.

Iansyst chief executive Tim Sutton said: "It takes a standard HTC TyTN smartphone and turns the inbuilt camera into a scanner, but a scanner which can be taken anywhere and used anytime."