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How Alexa assistant Can Help You Find Your Keys in the House

As blind and visually impaired people, we’ve all lost something in the house at one point or another.

It’s all too easy to forget where you put your keys, cane, guide dog or phone. Whatever the case, you spend way too long trying to find misplaced items when you could simply ask your Amazon Echo to help you find them.

If you’re putting something important in a new, different or unusual spot, you can tell Alexa to remember exactly where you placed it. Then just ask Alexa again when you’re ready to find it. read more

Tile Releases New Bluetooth Trackers with Replaceable Batteries

Tile has announced the launch of new Tile Mate and Tile Pro Bluetooth trackers that feature longer range, louder volumes, and most important, replaceable batteries. Additionally, the company has announced Tile Premium, an offering that includes free battery replacements, smart alerts, 30-day location history, and more.

With the new versions of Mate and Pro, customers can keep their favourite Tiles indefinitely, and expect batteries to come with a guaranteed one-year lifespan. To meet Tile standards for usability, reliability and durability, the team spent a year perfecting the entire user experience, including extensive testing a wide variety of battery doors. Tile also have increased the ring volume and Bluetooth range for both products. Tile Mate has a Bluetooth range of 150 feet and Tile Pro offers an unprecedented Bluetooth range of 300 feet. read more

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.

Tile is a small Bluetooth enabled device that is shaped like a tile. It is 34MM wide, and less than 5mm thick. The Tile Slim is even thinner.
Once you have the Tile, you pair it to your phone using the Tile app, which is available for both iOS and Android.

You can then identify in the app what you are going to attach that Tile to. You can pair several Tiles, and give each a different object to attach to. The Tile has a small hole that allows you to place it on a keyring, but you can also slide it into a wallet, or stick it on a laptop.
When you activate a Tile in the app, you will hear a distinctive ringing. The Bluetooth range is good up to 100FT. If you are out of range, the app will show you the last known location of the object on a map. If the object is no longer at that location, you can have the network of Tile users around the world track the object until it is found. If you have misplaced your phone, you can press on any of your Tiles, and your phone will ring, even if it is on silent. You will need to allow the app to run in the background for this feature to work. read more

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