Abstract: A system and method that allows a merchant/manufacturer to store and enable restricted access to product information in a plurality of separate clouds is disclosed. A server is configured to enable the merchant/manufacturer to set pre-limited access rights for a specified entity to the product information, and to receive requests for product information over a communications network. The requests include data representing the pre-limited access rights accompanying a code that may be scanned by a transducer on an electronic device. Depending on the pre-limited access rights, the server retrieves the product related information from at least one of clouds and forwards the product information, as restricted by the pre-limited access rights, to the electronic device. The product information may include at least one of readable, audio and visible data.

Abstract: An apparatus for assisting visually impaired persons includes a headset. A camera is mounted on the headset. A microprocessor communicates with the camera for receiving an optically read code captured by the camera and converting the optically read code to an audio signal as a function of a trigger contained within the optical code. A speaker communicating with the processor outputs the audio signal.