Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. The author is a Forbes contributor. The opinions expressed are those of the writer. For the last two years, my team and I have been building and commercializing a product that empowers the visually impaired by recognizing what they are looking at using computer vision. Now, ThirdEye is being acquired by TheBlindGuide (see TechCrunch release here).

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. The author is a Forbes contributor. The opinions expressed are those of the writer. For the last two years, my team and I have been building and commercializing a product that empowers the visually impaired by recognizing what they are looking at using computer vision. Now, ThirdEye is being acquired by TheBlindGuide.

Amidst the free t-shirts and apps to help you find parties on campus always lie a few hidden gems for those with the patience to hunt. ThirdEye, one of those gems forged out of PennApps, UPenn's hackathon, is being acquired today by TheBlindGuide for an undisclosed sum. Started by three current Penn students, ThirdEye brings object recognition to mobile to help the visually impaired. Originally created as an add-on for the now obsolete Google Glass, the ThirdEye of today exists as a mobile app. It uses Google's Cloud Vision API to identify objects and read their descriptions aurally.