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Ford Blind Spot System Uses Radar to Save your Ass [Car Radar]

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2008-04-10 06:30:00 by Jesus Diaz in Gizmodo
...Blind Spot Monitoring System, which will alert drivers of potential collision targets using radar technology. Which these new gadgets, instead of having to check the mirror and ignore any cars coming from behind before changing lane, drivers would be able to check a red light that will warn about any incoming vehicles, even if they are hiding...
 
Tags: spot, blind-spot, blind spot mirror, blind spot risk, blind spot, spotter mirror, cross traffic alert, factory spotter mirror, cross traffic
 
 
 
 
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Robert Harley of The Absolute Sound on Blind Listening Tests

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2008-06-04 02:42:58 by Editor in Audio Junkies
...blind "ABX" tests often used to try and determine if there are differences between audio formats, amplifiers, etc. are fundamentally flawed. The roughly 50/50 results that always result supposedly show no audible differences between CD and high-res audio, or digital and analog recordings or whatever the test subjects are only show that the...
 
Tags: blind, harley, robert harley, audio, digital audio, swedish radio, non-blind, audio formats, tests
 
 
 
 
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KNFB, Nokia Help the Blind See with Cell-Phone Tech

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2008-01-28 16:27:00 by Mark Hachman in Gearlog
...Blind, which co-developed the device as KNFB Reading Technologies. In June 2006, KNFB launched a discrete reader device that sold for about $3,500 Now, a partnership with Nokia has placed the technology inside the N82, which includes a 5-megapixel autofocus camera Both the discrete reader and the NKNFB-enhanced Nokia N82 use the same basic...
 
Tags: phone, reader, screen-reader packages, discrete reader, blind, mobile-phone carriers, nokia, knfb, cell phone
 
 
 
 
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The Bright-F Translation System for Color Blind

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2008-05-09 16:56:12 by Michael in Medgadget
...blindness by empowering them Here's what one person at Yanko Design , an excellent design blog, tells Medgadget : As we know, blind ... cant see any thing including colors . Though they can feel the shape and material of the object by their fingers, they still cant feel the color of it by this way. But cant see the colors doesnt mean that...
 
Tags: blind, blind people, bright, people, common people, bright-f, color, colors, design
 
 
 
 
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The Internet is maddening for the blind

2008-04-18 15:48:19 by John Brownlee in Boing Boing Gadgets
 
...blind have using the Internet as web site design becomes increasingly sophisticated and image based. This is certainly enough to make me feel guilty about never bothering to fill in my ALT tags: "It can take a while to wade through a strange site -- it can be maddening," complained Jay Leventhal, who is blind and serves as editor of...
 
Tags: blind, blind user, blind computer users, blind users, obstacles computer world, computer world, web site design, web, struggle
 
 
 
 
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Electro-occular implants transform blind grandmas into NBA stars

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2008-05-05 14:12:33 by John Brownlee in Boing Boing Gadgets
...blind The earliest trials in 2004 featured a 4x4 inch grid of electrodes to translate incoming light into electrical signals to be passed onto the brain, but Argus Mach II is now up to 60 electrodes in a 10x6 grid. That doesn't sound like a lot, but Second Sight thinks the 60 electrode version will allow the blind to read, and even 16...
 
Tags: blind, 4x4 inch grid, electrodes, restore sight, sight, bionic eyes impolants, sigh vision, daily tech, retinitis pigmentosa
 
 
 
 
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First Cell Phone that Reads to the Blind & Dyslexic

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2008-01-29 15:57:07 by Patrick Birmingham in Cell Phone Digest
...Blind and Kurzweil Technologies Inc. , today unveils an exciting product line that will revolutionize access to print for anyone who has difficulty seeing or reading print, including the blind and learning disabled The companys world-renowned reading software has been especially designed for and paired with the Nokia N82 mobile phone to...
 
Tags: blind, text-to-speech conversion technologyall, text, blind users, users, reader enables users, reader, text-to-speech, combination reader
 
 
 
 
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Spice Mobile's Phone for the Blind

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2008-02-12 18:54:23 by Sascha Segan in Gearlog
...blind, shown at left. The "Phone for the Visually Impaired" is a very simple, voice-only phone with a braille keypad. When you press a button, it speaks the number, and when you press the call key, it speaks the number you dialed. It has ten speed dials, and it could retail for less than $20 Spice reps at the show said they're in touch with...
 
Tags: phone, blind, phone avoid, voice phone calls, low-cost phone, spice, blind people, voice-only phone, braille keypad
 
 
 
 
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Blind Japanese man creates vibrating Braille handset

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2008-04-08 19:17:19 by Will Park in IntoMobile
...blind get more out of their mobile phones, Nobuyuki Sasaki, a former Tsukuba University of Technology professor, and his team have developed a new technology that converts the keypad key-presses into vibrating pulses (presumably correlated to the Braille alphabet The vibrations and key-press conversions are handled by an external terminal....
 
Tags: blind, guide blind people, blind cellphone users, blind people, mobile phone, phone, phone flasher, call alerts, apple iphone dummy