Tag: assistive technology
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AI: the Artificial Eye for the blind
The “Be My Eyes” app now uses ChatGPT for image recognition, helping blind users understand their surroundings.
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Technology, mind maps and people! A blind man’s guide to MWC
The question I most often get asked at MWC is not what’s hot and what’s not. It’s always, how the hell do you cope with Barcelona and the FIRA as a blind person? The answer is a combination of planning, people and technology. Planning The annual MWC Lewis spreadsheet is legendary. It’s a masterpiece in…
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The Six Million Dollar man 40 years on. Wearables, Smartphones, 3D printing. Cost to you <$100k!
As a teenager in the 1970s I loved Steve Austin, the astronaut who crashed and was rebuilt. Remember the tag line “Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology, the capability to make the world’s first Bionic man”! It captured my imagination and has come to the front of my thinking now as I…
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What tech is out there for disabled people?
Recent interview with Telefonica about accessibility technology available today and in the future. I’m not the one in the bow tie…. Lewis Insight Interview with Telefonica
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You’re blind: How do you ‘read’, join in social media and find your way around, let alone run a business?
Picture the scene: a blind man walking down the street moving white stick to and fro. He is muttering to himself while clicking a small black thing in his left hand. What is he doing? Actually, he is running his business, doing email, messaging, reading documents, checking-in for his flight and working out the best…
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Big Screen, Small Screen, No Screen – Assistive Technology for the Visually Impaired
At the recent Vision UK 2020 conference, stakeholders in the eye-care sector pulled together a Tech Table to demonstrate the breadth and depth of current and emerging technology available to the visually impaired (VI). In the mainstream telecoms market, people talk about Big Screen (television) to Small Screen (smart phone) as a continuum of devices…