![]() The Cool Blind Tech team discuss a fun new device that will benefit those who are torn on whether to join the Alexa team or the Google Assistant team. Having the Best of Both Worlds With Virtual Assistants Joel, Jessica and Hugo discuss how it can benefit those who pay for accessible technology with out of pocket costs. There May Soon Be Help for Purchasing Accessible TechnologyĪ new bill currently making its way through the US House of Representatives may help blind Americans with the cost of accessible technology. If you’re still using Windows 7 or XP, this will definitely get you to upgrade. You’ll be amazed at the latest changes they made and how it can help you with your next installation of windows 10. The Microsoft team continues to work on making the out-of-box experience for everyone as easy and fun as possible. Topics This Week Include the Following: I Can Set Up Windows With Just My Voice? Plenty of important and fun topics are just waiting for you to press play on your favorite podcast player. Joel, Jessica, and Hugo share their thoughts on Virtual Private Networks, how it affects you and why you should care. This week the Cool Blind Tech team discuss some major issues affecting your privacy while you are logged on to the internet. Having easy access to braille material directly correlates to a more educated and productive blind community. Only 10% of blind people can read braille, 70% of blind people are unemployed, and 80% of blind people who are employed can read braille. It is about time that new options come to those who desperately need it. We are still using technology that is decades old, and the cost for these devices are in the thousands of dollars. The problem in the braille display market is that no one has been motivated to create anything new and affordable. The team only had 15 hours to create this device during the hackathon competition, and it only costs around one hundred dollars. Think about what an improvement this is over current methods of taking pictures, waiting for OCR software to convert to text, and then having to have a very expensive braille device connected to whatever you used to take the picture and convert to text. You just move the device, for now called Tactile, over printed text, and it is immediately displayed in braille on the front. It has a camera on the back, it runs OCR software, and it has 36cells of refreshable braille on the front. ![]() They created a device that is the size of a candy bar. They call themselves Team-Tactile, and they did something that should have been done a long time ago. Six women, all undergraduate engineering students at MIT, won last year’s MakeMIT Hackathon by creating a device that can easily change the world for people who are blind. ![]()
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