Real-Time Text-to-Braille Scanner
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Looking like a cross between the original iPod Shuffle and a vinyl record cleaner, the Blind Reader Bridge translates text on the fly into braille and saves it to hard-disk. And it downloads data from the internet. In Gear Factor.
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls... It's with much anticipation that I say this. I have a new product that may be familiar to those of you who used Radio 8, and in other ways may be completely new.  The idea is simple.  There's a convergence between big screen high-definition televisions, and photography as an Internet based activity. The purpose of this product is to smooth that convergence, to make it easy to set up a connection between the Internet and your television. To allow photography to come into your living room in new, powerful and easy ways. Think of it as the networked living room and you'll understand the vision. Some of the work I've done is technical, some is user interface, and some is working with media organizations to try to create a comfort level, or at least a spirit of Let's Give This A Try. In the latter case, it's much like working with the NY Times to get their news headlines and summaries to flow through Radio's RSS aggregator in 2002. Only this time we're working with photographs, and we think, the best news photographers in the world. And the pictures are beautifully high-def, they look really great when displayed on LCD and plasma screens. I use it with my 52-inch Samsung and 46-inch Sony. Of course what looks great on a wall, also looks great on a 15-inch Macbook or 24-inch iMac.   And while we connect those pros with your TV, it's equally important that we connect your friends and families too. One of the early testers found the pictures that Doc Searls uploads to Flickr a great revelation. Me too. That's because Doc is not only a great photographer, he's also a great story-teller. I find that I can follow the lives of far more friends visually than I can through text messages (which I love to do too!). Viewing great photos on bigscreen TVs, desktops and laptops -- that's one focus, but not the only one.  I wanted to provide a complete two-way tool for people who love Flickr, as I do.  Why Flickr? Well, they've got this great thing called an API. It makes it possible for people like me to make software that runs on a desktop computer that does things like automatically backing up your new photos every night, and providing a drop-folder on your desktop for quick uploads. (It understands tags too, it's incredibly simple.) We also made it easy to post pictures you like to Twitter. Why Twitter? It's that API thing again. They made it easy for us to love them. I wish more network service developers understood how powerful this outstretched hand is.  But that's not all! Not by a long shot. The reason all this will be so familiar to Radio 8 users is that it builds on the same engine, the one that was released as open source in 2004. So I've been working on other tools to drop into this base platform and once we have a good-sized base of people using it for "really simple photos" on the desktop, there will be other tools. And because it's an open platform, other developers can do the same. Not saying they will, but they can.  Anyway, I'm in the last stages, preparing the download site, and a FAQ, and tweaking the installer. One caveat, the first beta release is Mac only. That's because I'm doing all my work on the Mac, and this is a one-man show. Later we will work it out for Windows too, and with a bit more work and a bit more luck, for Linux.  It should be ready before the sun goes down today.
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The previous article introduced the Doodle drawing application. This week, an application framework is added, complete with a document-view architecture. This powerful programming technique separates the document data from the view. By Guyon Roche. 0929
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New software synchronizes Research In Motion devices with Mac OS X.
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An electronic &quot;artificial eye&quot;, developed for people with impaired vision, has been shown to reliably identify pedestrian crossings, determine when it is safe to walk across and even measure the width of a road.
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Delivering the capabilities of traditional EAI products within a light-footprint, standards-based infrastructure supporting incremental integration
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A mouse that can leap over mountains of pages, or tiptoe through paragraphs line by line.
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Device features more storage, improved handwriting recognition.
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Barcode readers you can talk to It's not just mobile phones that are getting more features than you can possibly use, Motorola's latest barcode scanner has a VoIP client built in to allow shelf-stackers to chat while they're working.â¦
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Researchers create digital paper that emits recorded sound in response to a user's touch.
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A blind engineering student in the US develops software that turns colour into musical notes.
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A new technology unveiled Tuesday would show what's being said on the radio using a receiver with a screen that would scroll text much like closed captions roll by on TV.
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Developed by the Web Technology Group at Appalachian State University, phpWebSite provides a complete web site content management system. All client output is XHTML 1.0 and meets the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative requirements. Version 0.9.3-4 contains mostly bug fixes which were found in the 0.9.3-3 release, but there are some new features/enhancements.   Form Generator + ability to send emails as text/plain instead of text/html + ability to view, delete exports and archives  Notes + send notes to groups of users or to all users on the site  Control Panel + modules now list by label in alphabetical order  Other: + improved output all around for XML/XHTML compliance + spell checker added to the wysiwyg for those with the pspell extentsion loaded + files written to the system in most modules have better permissions set for easier access  Enjoy!
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LeapFrog has a new pen-based, handheld learn-to-read system called the Tag Reading System, which is due out this summer.
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Microsoft-endorsed Open XML Translator project releases downloadable ODF converter.
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Company is working on flexible display technologies.
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Dell SP2008WFP: 20-inch wide-screen LCD monitor with Webcam