The next generation of Amazon’s best-selling Fire tablet ever – now thinner, lighter, and with longer battery life and an improved display. According to Amazon, it is more durable than the latest iPad.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Braille Mail: The Sequel to the Prequel
The CBT Team kicks off its new Braille Mail Show, with James and Nelson as your hosts. Keep sending us your emails and messages from social media and we will read or play your feedback on our show.
Google Home Mini for the First Time
CBT takes a look at the Google Home Mini with updated touch controls. Shortly after launching the Mini, Google disabled all touch controls due to an issue with the touch control on the top of the device constantly being triggered even when not touched.
Google Pixel 2 XL Unboxing Day
CBT gives you our first impressions of the Google Pixel 2 XL. Find out how this maybe the best of 2017.
Smart Glasses Brings Enhanced Sight to Pennsylvania High School Student
Vuzix, a leading supplier of Smart Glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies and products for the consumer and enterprise markets, is pleased to announce that the Company has delivered vastly enhanced vision or “new” sight to a Pennsylvania-area high school student via its Vuzix’ M300 Smart Glasses.
VIP: Get a Good Dongle
In this week’s VIP, Nelson and James discuss the top stories from assistive tech and give you some Cool Picks to think about.
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