Amazon recently rolled out a new feature called Alexa Announcements that allows one-way announcements to be made to every Echo device in a household.
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New Google Phone App Beta Silences Spam Calls
The Google Phone app beta will give you early access to new features, including spam calls that will no longer make your phone ring at all.
How Smart Contact Lenses Could be the Next Big Thing in Wearable Technology
IMAGINE that, with the simple blink of an eye, you could take photos and shoot videos. You could have important information displayed as you go about your day right in front of your eyes, without the help of your smartphone. You could look at a wall and have a movie projected on it or see live sports play directly in front of you, and you wouldn’t need a tangle of wires to do it. Imagine that you could bring the software currently trapped in your smartphone and tablet screens to life, in 3D, right there in the room.
How to Enable Amazon Alexa Brief Mode
What does this new Brief Mode option do? It simply turns Alexa’s voice confirmation into chimes. That means that your Echo device will make a chime and perform the action.
Dhofar University Student Creates Smart Stick for the Blind
An engineering student from Dhofar University, has created a ‘smart stick’ for the blind.
Students’ Create Award-Winning Non-Braille Book Reader for the Visually Impaired
Five students from Da Nang University of Technology won first prize at ASU/AWS EduHackathon 2017 organized by Arizona University for their FingerReader, a machine that supports visually impaired people to read non-Braille books.
Visually Impaired Toddlers Explore and Learn with New Device
Blind toddlers have a hard time using traditional white canes, leading to accidents and injuries. Blind children starting to stand and take their first steps (as young as 11 months old) need safe mobility all the time so they can develop on par with their peers.
Blind Game Coming to PlayStation VR Later This Year
An independent game label called Surprise Attack, based out of Australia, has released a new trailer and details for Blind, releasing later this year for PlayStation VR and various other platforms.
How to Use Amazon’s Fire 7 and HD 8 tablets as Hands-Free Alexa Speakers
In the latest update for Amazon’s Fire 7 and Fire HD 8 tablets, you can now use them as hands-free Alexa speakers. This feature is already available on the Fire HD 10, and the company is now expanding it to other recent tablets released last year. Once the latest software update rolls out to the devices, you’ll be able to use Alexa’s full array of voice commands whenever the tablet’s display is turned on.
How to Pair a Bluetooth Speaker with Google Home
The Google Home Mini speaker sounds OK for listening to podcasts, but for music it could use a boost. Now, you can pair any Home or Home Mini with a Bluetooth speaker for a better audio experience.
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