Michael Hingson, Director of the National Federation for the Blind, hopes that families will be able to buy home models of Cyclops for the price of a good television set.
His machine, Cyclops, has a camera that scans any page, interprets the print into sounds, and then delivers them orally in a robot-like voice through a speaker.
Voltaire's book commanded a wide audience, according to Feingold, because "he was neither a mathematician nor a physicist, but a literary giant aloof from the academic disputes over Newtonian ideas".