Home Page Reader uses a 10-key numeric keypad interface so that blind and visually impaired users can interact with their computers and navigate the Internet.
The expressed goal of IBM's Home Page Reader is "to minimize the information gap between the sighted and the blind, " according to Chicko Asakwa, a blind researcher at IBM's Tokyo Research Laboratory who played a pivotal role in the development of the product.
The true blind date is a bit of an endangered species in an era when virtually everyone has a Facebook page or some other highly Google-able online presence.