Kurzweil presented a similar device about 15 years ago.

First identify, from the context of Kurzweil's 26 May 2022 remarks, the device being discussed. True: dated records (press coverage, product launch, conference video or programme) show that Kurzweil himself publicly presented a device of the same kind or function roughly 15 years earlier, about 2005–2009. Mostly true: he presented a substantially similar device, but the date is somewhat further off (about 2003–2004 or 2010–2011), or the similarity is in core function with some differing details. Mixed: he presented something only partly similar, or it was presented by his company and not clearly by him personally, in roughly that period. Mostly false: the earlier presentation was of a clearly different kind of device, or it was more than about 5 years away from the 15-year mark. False: records show he presented no such device in anything near that period, for example because the comparable device was first presented by him only recently or never.

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1. E1 A Product of Innovation and Collaboration: The Story of the Kurzweil-National Federation of the Blind Reader American Foundation for the Blind (AccessWorld), inferred from the afb.org domain; the fetched text does not name the publisher

   “Officially released on July 1, 2006, this small device, which enables people who are blind to read print, was featured in numerous print and broadcast outlets”

2. E2 A Product of Innovation and Collaboration: The Story of the Kurzweil-National Federation of the Blind Reader American Foundation for the Blind (AccessWorld), inferred from the afb.org domain; the fetched text does not name the publisher

   “Caption: Jim Gashel (at podium), executive director of NFB, introduces Ray Kurzweil (left) at the unveiling of the Kurzweil-National Federation of the Blind Reader.”

3. E3 A Product of Innovation and Collaboration: The Story of the Kurzweil-National Federation of the Blind Reader American Foundation for the Blind (AccessWorld), inferred from the afb.org domain; the fetched text does not name the publisher

   “In 2001, when the NFB held its groundbreaking ceremonies for the Kenneth Jernigan Institute in Baltimore, Kurzweil made one of his legendary predictions: We could have a portable reading device, one that people who are blind could actually carry around with them, within four to five years.”

4. E4 A Product of Innovation and Collaboration: The Story of the Kurzweil-National Federation of the Blind Reader American Foundation for the Blind (AccessWorld), inferred from the afb.org domain; the fetched text does not name the publisher

   “When the product was ready to be put on the market, all the parties thought that a separate company was necessary. Thus, K-NFB Reading Technology was born.”

5. E5 Kurzweil Develops First Seeing-Eye Cellphone Gizmodo · 28 January 2008

   “Now, working with the National Federation of the Blind, Kurzweil’s group has shrunk the knfbREADER Mobile system down into something more convenient: the small Symbian-based 5-megapixel Nokia N82 smartphone.”

6. E6 Kurzweil Develops First Seeing-Eye Cellphone Gizmodo · 28 January 2008

   “said Ray Kurzweil, President and CEO of K-NFB Reading Technology, Inc. “This innovation has created opportunities disabled people had never considered before”

7. E7 k-nfb.txt - RESNA at Stanford RESNA at Stanford (reposting a K-NFB Reading Technology press release) · 28 January 2008 Own record

   “K-NFB Reading Technology, Inc., a company combining the research and development efforts of the National Federation of the Blind and Kurzweil Technologies, Inc., today unveils an exciting product line”

8. E8 Kurzweil Develops First Seeing-Eye Cellphone Gizmodo · 28 January 2008

   “His original designs were chunky by our standards, a Canon Digital Elph literally strapped to a PDA.”

The evidence shows that Kurzweil appeared at the unveiling of the Kurzweil-NFB Reader, released in July 2006 (E1, E2), and that a phone-based version was reported in January 2008 (E5, E6, E7). None of the evidence identifies the device Kurzweil was discussing on 26 May 2022, however, which the criteria require as the first step, so the evidence cannot confirm that the earlier device was "something like this".