If you are anything like me, you believe that March Madness should be declared a national holiday. It is so much fun to sit around and watch 68 teams battle it out for the national championship, cheer for your favorite team, and make friendly wagers with your friends and work colleagues.
However, if you are blind, it can be difficult to deal with the fact that none of the online tournament brackets are accessible. Finally, there is now an easy to use, and completely accessible tournament bracket available.
Check it out here, and remember that the North Carolina Tar Heels will win it all!
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InsideOne: A Windows 10 Tablet with a Built-in Braille Display.
Inside Vision has created one of the coolest products for people who are blind. The InsideOne is a full size Windows 10 tablet with 32cells of refreshable braille located along the bottom of the screen. This device also allows a person to type in braille on the screen, but there is no longer a need to make sure that your fingers are perfectly allied to be recognized. There are indentations in the glass, and this is where you place your fingers when typing in braille. I think this is a much better design than trying to add a Perkins style physical keyboard in addition to the 32cell line of refreshable braille. It also makes it feel more in line with a traditional Windows tablet. You don’t have to use braille input. There is an option for a virtual on screen keyboard. In addition, you could use a Bluetooth connected keyboard or a USB connected keyboard. The tablet still has a touch sensitive glass screen that responds to Windows 10 gestures.
BrailleEasy: A One-Handed Braille Keyboard for the Visually Impaired.
Qatar Computing Research Institute developed a virtual on-screen one-handed braille keyboard for those who are blind and have motor impairments that make two-handed braille typing difficult to perform. This app is free to download from the iOS app store, but is currently not available for Android devices. You are able to use it as your default keyboard, or just switch to it when you want. It divides a braille cell into two columns. You enter the dots for the first column, followed by the dots for the second column. I gave it a try, and once I got used to the gestures that accompany one-handed typing, I found it quite easy to use.
CBT Live From #CSUNATC17: The ElBraille, A Compact Mobile Braille Display and PC
Hugo Gallegos speaks with Adi from Elita Group about the ElBraille docking station for the Focus Blue 14 and the ElBraille 40.
ElBraille is a portable device designed for users who are blind or deaf-blind and want to stay connected at school, at workplace or home as well as on the go. A user can utilize braille and/or speech for output and braille for the input. The device supports Windows 10 functionality, including third party applications accessible with JAWS. ElBraille has specially designed software installed on it as well. ElBraille is powered by Windows 10, JAWS 18.0 screen reading software and a Focus 14 Blue Braille display. ElBraille is a full-featured portable PC. It will allow its owner not only to quickly create notes and read e-mail, but also work in popular Microsoft Office apps,
CBT Live From #CSUNATC17: eSight Believes That Everybody Deserves to See!
Joel Ramos speaks with Patrick Wallace, Vice President of Business Development at eSight, about the eSight 3, which brings a revolutionary technology to those who can no longer see.
eSight 3 is a versatile, wearable, hands-free solution that provides sight without the need
for any surgery.
It is a game-changing breakthrough that uses advanced technology, built upon many years of research and development, to replicate sight for an individual who is
legally blind or living with low vision.
CBT Live From #CSUNATC17: The Dot Braille Smart Watch is Here!
Joel Ramos visits with Alex Lee of Dot Incorporated to get a good look at the new Dot braille smart watch. This gadget has caught a great deal of attention because it brings new possibilities and benefits of the networked digital age to the wrists of millions of Blind & Visually Impaired people worldwide.
Nokia Announces 360° Audio for Cameras and Smart Phones.
Virtual reality has strived to take advantage of 360° video technology, but Nokia believes that 3D audio must also be a part of the experience to make it feel as real as possible. That is why Nokia developed their OZO Audio technology to work with their OZO camera which can not only create 3D images, but thanks to the audio software and 8 built in microphones, it can also record 3D audio.
But wait, you don’t need to run out and buy a OZO camera. Nokia is now offering their OZO Audio technology to anyone who has a camera or smart phone with at least two microphones. The microphones don’t have to be built in to the device. They can be add-ons. Nokia says that the software works best with three or four microphones.
For people who are blind, this is important because, for us, 3D audio is our version of virtual reality.
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Cool Picks: March 2, 2017
Join Joel, Jessica and Cool Blind Tech’s newest team member Rachel as they discuss their Cool Picks.
VIP: Live! From the Mobile World Gaming Assistive Tech Convention!
This week the team has way too many conventions to choose from and they all have great assistive technology to talk about. Join Joel, Jessica and Cool Blind Tech’s newest team member Rachel as they discuss the happenings in A.T. Whether this cool Tech shows up in Barcelona, Spain or San Diego, California you can guarantee that the team has an opinion and plenty of techie details.
A Braille Display Mod Could be Coming to the Moto Z.
Ryan Poltermann, of Virginia Beach, has long known that there is a missing piece of technology for those who are blind. When using a smart phone, people can look at their screen and interact with it, but blind people must carry around a bulky braille display that pairs to the phone via Bluetooth. When the initial concept of modular phones was announced about two years ago, Ryan realized that a braille display mod could be the solution for this problem. It is virtually impossible to develop a specialized braille display phone, considering how much it would cost the manufacturer, and how small the target market is. The advantage of modular phones is that they can be customized by the manufacturers and the users to meet the needs of even small groups. Motorola has made it clear that they will continue to back the Moto Z, which is a modular phone. Motorola promises twelve new mods each year for the Moto Z.
Ryan Poltermann is currently running an Indiegogo campaign to raise the money necessary for his Braille Moto Mod. The Braille Moto Mod
Has two versions. The first is a single cell version, which I assume allows the user the ability to purchase the number of cells which is best suited and cost effective. The second version is a multi-cell mod that has up to 110 cells.
It is difficult to know all the details, because Ryan is having to maintain some secrecy since he still has some patent and funding issues to resolve.
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