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Be My Eyes

/ CBS Philadelphia

By Chris Morris

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - On today's APP-tastic and outta SITE - Be My Eyes.

With all the anger and snark that lives in the online world, it's nice to occasionally see people doing nice things for each other. Be My Eyes is an app where sighted users help blind people who need a little assistance.

Blind users pull from a pool of sighted volunteers and, using the phone's live audio/video feed, rely on those people to visually interpret a situation and offer analysis.

Check out the Be My Eyes app.

First published on March 27, 2015 / 1:58 AM EDT

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