Everyday Bits and Bobs from the Vision Australia Vision Store (and some of my favorite ones)

 

David’s Top Five

 

Talking Key Ring Clock

 

As the name suggests, it just attach’s to the key ring and you can check the time and/or have the times spoken on the hour/Alarm as well.

Sometimes I just like a manual way of checking the time.

$23.

 

https://shop.visionaustralia.org/shop/product/talking-keyring-clock 

 

Audible and Vibrating Liquid Level Indicator

 

Lets you know the level of liquid coming up to the edge of a cup etc.

For me, I’m always adding milk after I’ve made a cup of coffee with my bean coffee machine, and because the milk is Luke warm when I’m poring in to the cup, I still like the fact I get warned from the sensor when the liquid is hitting the top of the cup.

$44.

 

https://shop.visionaustralia.org/shop/product/audible-and-vibrating-liquid-level-indicator 

 

Talking Kitchen Scales and Easy to See Measuring Jug Set

 

Whilst I find this great for the kitchen, because my wife and I are always sending parcels hear, there, and everywhere, these scales come in great for measuring the weight of your parcel as well smile.

$136.

 

https://shop.visionaustralia.org/shop/product/talking-kitchen-scale-easy-see-measuring-jug-set 

 

Talking Builders Tape Measure

 

Over the upcoming Christmas break, my talking tape measure is going to come in handy for myself, I have to measure up my office to plan getting some new desks etc for the new year.

$199.

 

https://shop.visionaustralia.org/shop/product/talking-builders-tape-measure 

 

Sangean Accesible AM/FM Radio

 

Fully accessible radio. I know the price, I know its not Digital, and I know the price is a bit pricy: but hey it works, everything is spoken, and in last years fires I wouldn’t have been without it.

$330.

 

https://shop.visionaustralia.org/shop/product/sangean-pr-d17-amfm-accessible-radio 

 

Amanda’s Top Five

 

Explorer 8 hand-held video magnifier, board and card games, large print kitchen clock, and large print or Braille (on request) calendars.

 

To search for the Explore 8 and Amanda’s other suggestions, use the general vA shop link:

https://shop.visionaustralia.org

 

Apple’s Recent Event

 

All about the new M1 Chip from Apple in the new MacBook Air range, new MacBook Pros 13 inch, and the new Mac mini.

Note - the Macbook Air’s only come as an M1 chip computer now, whilst the MacBook Pro 13, and Mac mini is still available with an Intel chip as well.

Keep in mind, you can also get your hands on a MacBook Pro 16 inch which is still Intel.

As far as we understand at the moment, you can not run Windows on an M1 chip based machine, and we are also not aware that you can do it under a virtual machine either.

 

Check out Apple’s web site for more info on the M1, and go to the events page if you would like to listen to the Apple Keynote.

 

https://apple.com

 

JaWS 2021

The next update foo Job Access With Speech (JAWS) is now available.

I’m quite interested in how the voice recognition within JaWS will go for controlling features, and the image recognition in Word documents.

 

There are also new 2021 versions of Zoomtext, and fusion (combined JAWS and Zoomtext).

 

https://www.freedomscientific.com/products/software/