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Robots and care- interesting book review
Robots and the Future of Eldercare: A Disability-Centered Perspective
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Pocket- a new ai recoding gadget thing
Pocket Anyone tried this? I see application for many of our consumers. You buy the gadget and then there is a free or subscription part to it. I can't tell if it is a start up or not (I never buy…
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AI for narrative description
Blind story flow- applicating for B/LV. Might be an interesting vendor for an ATAP meeting. https://aarush1023.github.io/BlindStoryFlow/
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Free online accessible gaming conference April 27-28
https://www.gaconf.com/conference/ They also have an archive of previous years. Note the time zone is British Standard Time.
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super cool hyper engineered low tech pill minders
ordaro And relatively inexpensive on Amazon- several kinds- I like the Farris wheel looking thing and the one that goes around the neck of a pill bottle
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A new gadget: VoxeLite
well this is super cool. Voxelite "Northwestern University engineers have built the first haptic device that reaches human resolution in touch. The ultra-thin wearable, called VoxeLite,…
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AUCD AT Special Interest Groups
Hey all you University/UCEDD/LEND folks, The AUCD AT SIG is recruiting members for the SIG steering committee. In the past, we have coordinated 4 webinars a year on AT.…
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top shelf reach
kinda cool grabber things for your loan closet- way better than the standard ones https://www.topshelfreach.com/
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Not a wheelchair
Y'all seen this Not a wheelchair https://notawheelchair.com/ $1000- read the "about"
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Rebranding "aging in place"
At a recent TX aging conference, a session I attended from a local AAA rebranded "aging in place" to "aging in action". Having past my 13.1 mile marker in the marathon of life,…
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open source one handed keyboard
For all you makers out there: one handed keybd
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VI Professionals group
possible resource- they do advocacy, training on VI tech, etc. I believe they are nationwide though the TX group reached out to me. We did an AT program overview webinar to a national audience so you…
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free accessibility icons/emojis
for AT Awareness posts https://blog.thenounproject.com/accessibility-icons/
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VI friendly glucometer and possible funding sources?
From a consumer: "I am working with a patient who is uninsured, blind and has diabetes. We are looking for a glucometer that can read the results aloud to her.…
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Open AI academy
Open IA has launched a learning platform targeting many constituencies- deeper dives than you usually get
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Hearview captioning glasses?
Anyone else tried these? Are they any good? Owned by that giant Chinese phone company (Xiao-I Corporation) trying to break into the Apple/Samsung market but they do have an office in MD.…
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resources to share from director's symposium
I had a running list of resources to share/post but not sure who needed them, so here it is all at once: MDM: Several people asked about our mobile device management (MDM) for iPads.…