In Canada, Google Home is $179.00 CDN. The shipping time for the Google Home is listed at “2-3 weeks” for customers on the Google Store.
Adobe Announces a Free Solution for Optical Character Recognition On Your Smart Phone
It seems that the number of free apps that can help a visually impaired person with Optical Character Recognition on their smart phone keeps growing and growing. Some of them are specifically designed to help the visually impaired and some are just well coded and can be used by the blind with little or no difficulty.
Spotlight with Brad Turner: VP of Global Literacy at Benetech
In this Spotlight Interview, James Oates sits down with Brad Turner, the vice president of global literacy at Benetech. They discuss:
Smart Glasses for the Visually Impaired – How OrCam Changes Lives
The latest innovative technology for the blind and visually impaired, OrCam, is a device that can change everything for those with visual problems. Essentially, it’s a tiny high-tech camera that attaches to reading glasses. They are a pair of smart glasses for the visually impaired and for the blind that can revolutionize reading, and help blind and visually impaired, even those with reading disabilities, to re-gain their confidence and independence. All one has to do is point their finger towards anything that they want to “see”–be it text, a street sign, even the face of a loved one. And with that point of a finger, the device can “read” the text aloud in your ear within seconds. It’s truly cutting-edge technology. This device is life-changing, and this assistive technology for visually impaired people, as well as blind people, has the potential to dramatically change the lives of thousands.
Protecting Your Computer from Viruses and Threats
In this podcast, Olivier Danjou shows us Windows Defender, a program built in to Windows 10 Creator’s Update that provides protection against viruses and other threats.
Google Assistant on iOS.
In this podcast, Bobby and Jessica Eden show us how to use the Google Assistant on an iPhone. The days in which Siri was the only personal assistant available on iOS are long gone. In addition to Cortana and Alexa, the iPhone now also has the Google Assistant.
Study Reveals Airbnb Hosts Reject Blind People More Often
A study by researchers at Rutgers found that guests who disclose a disability are less likely to be approved for a room and more likely to be rejected.
VIP: A Is for Apple, B Is for Braille
This week the Cool Blind Tech team is making some predictions on the Apple Keynote presentation taking place next week. Make sure to catch hosts Joel, Jessica and Tamas as they discuss the lead up to the keynote and bring you this week’s latest news in the world of Accessible Technology. Download the podcast or click on play to listen to this week’s fun-filled show.
Wearable Device Helps Visually Impaired Users Navigate Using a 3-D Camera
A new system has been developed that uses a 3-D camera, a belt with separately controllable vibrational motors distributed around it, and an electronically reconfigurable Braille interface to give visually impaired users more information about their environments.
HumanWare Unveils the Brailliant BI14 designed for mobile users
HumanWare has just come out with it’s most compact braille device to date, the Brailliant BI14 is designed for ultimate efficiency without sacrificing ergonomics or comfort, helping visually-impaired users stay connected and stay on track anywhere, anytime.
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