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NEWS
Google Home Can Now Control the Neato Robotic Vacuum.
Neato announced that several of their smart vacuums will now work with Google Home. These vacuums already work with Amazon Echo, and they can also be controlled with an app on your smart phone.
Ask your Neato to start cleaning and it will leave its docking station, and get to work. Ask Neato to report its battery level, and you will get an answer through your Google Home speaker. You can also control your Neato vacuum through your smart phone app even when you are not home.
The D3 Connected, D5 Connected, and Botvac Connected vacuums work with Google Home, but only in the US.
Clarity: A Speaker That Runs Both Alexa and Google Assistant.
Introducing Clarity, a voice activated Alexa speaker with a touch screen that also runs Android, as well as Google Assistant. Now you can use one device to ask Alexa and Google Assistant any question. You can play music and watch movies on the display screen. Because it is also an Android tablet, you can also download any app from the Play Store. Pricing is set initially at $99.
Listen to Your Computer’s Performance With CHARM
There are many apps out there that will monitor and present information about your computer, but one in particular does it in a unique way. CHARM from DragonApps is a simple Windows utility that sits in your system tray and reports changes in your computer’s activity such as CPU load, ram and disk usage—just by using sounds!
Agnitio: A Speech Recognition Program That Makes Navigating Windows Easier.
Agnitio is a speech recognition program for
Windows that lets you control your computer by using your voice. Anitio is a free download. It lets you perform basic commands, open browsers, and make Google searches. It runs on Windows 10, Windows 8 and 8.1, and Windows 7. Give it a try by clicking here.
Spotlight On COMMTECH USA: Empowering Through Technology
Join Jessica for an exciting spotlight interview with Gabe Vega, CEO of Commtech USA..
Bristol Braille Develops the Canute: First Multi-Line Braille EBook Reader.
Bristol Braille has created Canute, a multi-line braille eBook reader. It has 9 lines of refreshable braille. Each line has 40 cells of braille. That is an amazing 360 cells, essentially making it a full page of refreshable braille.
It is about the size of a laptop, and is designed to work as a braille version of a Kindle eBook reader. It is estimated to cost about 600 Brittish Pounds, or about $750 U.S.
If you are curious about the name, Canute is the name of an English king from the eleventh century.
Introducing Tile: A Wireless way to Find Anything You Have Misplaced.
Have you ever misplaced something: like your keys, wallet, or phone? Well, Tile can help with that, and do even more.
VIP: Don’t TalkBack with Your Mouth Full of Oreos
In this week’s, VIP, James Oates, Joel Ramos, and Rachel Feinberg discuss the top headlines concerning:
Apple Adds New Features to Pages, Numbers, and Keynote for iOS and Mac.
Apple’s productivity suite of applications, also called iWork, received a significant update to version 3.1, with a host of new features. Pages is a word processing application, Numbers is a spreadsheet application, and Keynote is a slideshow presentation application. The full list of improvements is listed below:
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