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One of the most anticipated releases this year was HumanWare's BrailleNote Touch.

This device may look like your traditional note taker with a Perkins style keyboard and Braille display, but lift the cover on the top and out slides a slick looking tablet with either an 18 or 32 cell Braille display that uses the screen as a virtual BrailleTouch interface. Mike Tindell demonstrates this revolutionary device and shows us all the new innovations in HumanWare's latest note taker.

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Tyler Donnelly from Optelec shows us the new Traveller HD and just how portable and easy it is to use. He also discusses the recent merger with Freedom Scientific and how, combined, the two companies are now providing low vision products to a much wider audience.

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Dave Wilkinson from Hims Inc. talks about their latest HD video magnifier the GoVision, which proves that you don't have to give up screen size for portability. Dave also discusses some upcoming updates for owners of current Hims products and the creation of the HimsTastic political party, so make sure to take a listen.

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Need to find a great SteakHouse, listen to last night’s sports scores or just have a good book read to you? Just say “Alexa” and let Amazon’s virtual assistant do the work.

Peter from Amazon shows us all the things you can do with Alexa on the different speakers available for the family of Echo products. Additionally, he shows us just how accessible the Fire tablets are with its latest release of VoiceView, Amazon’s very own screen reader for the Fire tablets.

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Mara Hitner from MatterHackers demonstrates 3-D printing using an affordable printer that can be used to provide tactile models of printed items from animal pictures to complex maps. Listen to her provide information on how easy and affordable it is to provide the blind with a tactile world that only years ago was far out of reach for most.

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Joel interviewing David Bradburn from Baum USA at CSUN 2016

Who Said that notetakers can’t be slick and stylish?

Listen to David Bradburn from BAUM Inc. describe the VarioUltra 20 and 40 cell notetakers. Described as the MacBook pro’s of notetakers, these slick devices prove that performance and beautiful image can go hand-in-hand.

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In this podcast, Alex demonstrates NVDA Remote, a free add-on for NVDA that makes it possible to control another computer using speech and Braille.

This lends itself to many uses: tech support, accessibility testing, remote programming and just all around fun.

Visit NVDARemote.Com to download the add-on.

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There are several apps out there that can identify an object in front of your camera, as well as its color. Apps like TapTapSee for example, use a conventional method to do this called crowdsourcing. This means that as soon as you take a picture of an object, it is transmitted to a server where it is then analyzed by a group of people. Once they determine what the image represents, the result is instantly sent back to you. This insures that you will almost always get accurate results, but then one drawback to this method is that you usually have to wait a while for your image to be recognized; not to mention that the device you’re sending the image from has to be connected to the internet the entire time.

Aipoly Vision uses a different approach. Instead of sending your image to a server, Aipoly Vision processes and announces your image on your device, without requiring an internet connection! Unlike other apps, there is no need to take a few pictures and wait a while for your results. As soon as Aipoly is on, it instantly starts to scan and announce anything in its view. As of now, Aipoly recognizes 954 types of colors, and is able to process images at the rate of three times a second. The down side to this method is that you may find that Aipoly vision is not as accurate as other apps, but since it uses artificial intelligence, it learns about new objects every time! Teaching Aipoly vision is as easy as switching to the teach Aipoly mode, and then typing a description of an item in its view.

Would you replace other OCR apps with it? Do you think Aipoly has potential? Let us know what you think!

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In this podcast, Justin explains what keyboard shortcuts are, and explains how to use them. Although they cannot be used with braille screen input or the handwriting features on the iPhone, they still can make typing much easier.

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This week, Alex Justin and Joel Explore the accessibility features on the latest Cool Picks:

Focus for iOS

Launch center pro

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