Benetech announced a major expansion of the ongoing international effort to provide Bookshare, an ebook library for people with reading barriers in India.
Ask Chloe to Read the Label on Your Prescription Bottles
A recent collaboration between the AT&T Foundry for Connected Health (located in the Texas Medical Center Innovation Institute) and Aira, which makes smart glasses for people who are blind or have low vision, now has a solution to reading the tiny print on prescription bottles.
How to Guarantee Your Phone’s Fingerprint Reader Works Every Time
The fingerprint reader on your iPhone or Android phone always seems to fail enough on the first try. It can be anything from your fingertip not fully covering the sensor, wet hands or possibly the phone didn’t get an accurate read when you first registered your fingerprint.
By registering the same fingerprint more than once, you’re increasing the chances of your phone capturing enough data to unlock the first time. That’s because when you register your fingertip in the phone settings, it isn’t always clear which parts of your print the software has captured. A somewhat helpful animation or audible feedback will urge you to lift your finger to capture more area, but that doesn’t necessarily reflect the data your phone’s actually storing.
Deafblind Soccer Fan Follows World Cup with Touch Communication
Carlos Junior does not watch or listen to soccer games the way most soccer fans do. Instead, the 31-year-old massage therapist who is deaf and blind experiences the game with the help of interpreters using touch communication and a model soccer field to recount the passes, goals and fouls of his favorite team.
Google Assistant Wants to be Your Personal Secretary, But at What Cost?
Google is gearing up to release its Duplex technology that was presented at the Google I/O event in May 2018.
How to use Live Listen with Your AirPods on iOS 12
In iOS 12, the Live Listen feature comes to AirPods,. It’s a great feature that can really help those who don’t necessarily need a hearing aid but are having trouble hearing others in a difficult situation. Here’s how to get it working.
Doctors Say Laser Pointer Burned a Hole in a 9-Year-Old Boy’s Eye
A 9-year-old boy visited an ophthalmology clinic in Larissa, Greece, complaining of vision problems in his left eye, the case study published in the New England Journal of Medicine says. Despite having 20/20 vision in his right eye, doctors found that his left eyesight was around 20/100 — a discrepancy explained by a hole on his left macula, a part of the retina that “provides sharp, central vision,” according to the National Eye Institute.
Breakthrough Study Shows Insulin Eye Drops Could Restore Sight of Glaucoma Patients
Neuroscience researcher, Dr. Adriana Di Polo, Ph. D., and her team at the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM) in Canada, have made a major breakthrough in the treatment of glaucoma. Their findings could also be applicable to other neurodegenerative conditions, notably Alzheimer’s disease. The results have just been published in the prestigious British scientific journal Brain, an Oxford University Press publication.
Amazon’s Alexa App for iOS Gets Voice Control
After Android users gained the ability to control Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant through a dedicated app five months ago, Amazon is bringing identical functionality to iOS, turning an iPhone or iPad into a virtual Echo device.
Google Finally Launches An Official Podcast App
Google finally launched an official podcast app on June 19. Android’s long been in need of a first-party solution for downloading and listening to podcasts, and now that that solution is here, so was it worth the wait?
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