Hear the Net

Straining your eyes to read the tiny text on your mobile phone screen takes
all the fun out of surfing the Web. But one company thinks it has an answer:
Lernout & Hauspie of Ypres, Belgium, has developed a mobile phone that
translates on-screen text into speech so that you can listen in to the Internet.
And you can surf by speaking Web addresses into the phone. Last week, the
company showed off a prototype at the Demo 2000 technology conference in Indian
Wells, California.