A shooting club in South Devon has received a grant so that visually impaired people can take part in the sport.
Google Adds Braille Support to Sheets and Magnifier Tool to Slides and Drawings
Google recently announced that the G-Suite team is adding new accessibility features to Google Sheets, Slides, and Drawings. Specifically, Google Sheets is getting Braille support and Google Slides and Drawings are getting screen magnifier support.
RNIB Loses Millions
The blindness charity Royal National Institute of Blind People made a loss of £12.6 million in the year to 31 March 2017, the charity’s latest accounts show.
New Jonas Philanthropies Expands to Serve Vulnerable Populations
Barbara and Donald Jonas, founders of The Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare, recently unveiled a new vision to support the country’s most vulnerable citizens through Jonas Philanthropies. Building on more than a decade of high-impact investments in nursing scholarship, leadership, and innovation, Jonas Philanthropies will begin expanding the organization’s scope to fund other scalable solutions aimed at the most vulnerable and neglected.
ThirdEye’s X1 Smart Glasses Never Forgets a Face
ThirdEye’s X1 Smart Glasses uses augmented reality to perform any number of tasks, including recognizing individual people by their faces, which can potentially be helpful for those who are blind or visually impaired.
RightEye’s EyeQ System Uses Eye-Tracking to Diagnose Health Issues
There’s more to your eyesight than just whether or not you can see. Often, your vision can be a window to other health issues, like autism, Parkinson’s and even whether you have a concussion. That’s the idea behind RightEye’s EyeQ system, which aims to revolutionize the optometrist office with eye-tracking tech to not only diagnose issues, but to offer therapeutic measures to correct them as well. At CES 2018, the company released a brand new all-in-one EyeQ terminal that incorporates a PC, a monitor as well as a Tobii eye-tracking camera that promises to do all of that and more.
Mysterious Eye Cancer Cluster Strikes Young Women Within 25 Miles of Small Town
An eye cancer cluster has affected nearly two dozen people and killed four within a 25-mile radius of a North Carolina town over the last decade and experts have no idea what’s causing it.
Google’s New Voice AI Sounds Human: Can You Tell Which is Real?
Google just published new information about its latest advancements in voice AI. The new Tacotron sounds just like a human.
A Hero’s Call 1.0 is Now Available!
A Hero’s Call version 1.0 will cost $19.99 and is an AUDIO ONLY release. The game will feature no visuals but will be completely playable only from using sound. To achieve this, the game uses the following types of audio for navigation and exploration:
Samsung Reveals 3 New C-Lab Projects, Including Smart Glasses for the Visually Impaired
With CES 2018 quickly approaching, Samsung has decided to show off some projects that it plans to take to the tech expo from its Creative Lab (C-Lab) programme. C-Lab has been busy at work on three different projects.
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