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I don’t know how new this development is or isn’t, but whenever more people get access to blind guy cable boxes it’s good news worth mentioning. Hello, Canadian companies. I’m still waiting over here. Verizon offers Text to Speech functionality for the Fios TV on-screen guide to enhance accessibility for visually impaired customers. The Text …
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According to that demo video and news stories like this one, it looks as though Adobe has put in some pretty significant work on something they’re calling VoCo. Long story short, it’s a method for basically doing whatever you want with someone’s voice, much like you can currently do to pictures with Photoshop. Currently the …
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_RD-ziEY5I What you’re watching here is a fucking retard (his words, not mine) named John Pinney finding a new and inventive technological way to spend some time in jail. To be more specific, it’s an edited down version of Pinney using a police officer’s iPad to stream himself on Facebook Live being chased as he …
I could sit here and list each individual thing that went wrong here, but to save us all some time, let’s just say that all of them did and leave it at that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux7Qg6x-wKA An officer was checking a reported disturbance on Wednesday when he heard brakes squeal and an SUV slam into the patrol …
I don’t know that the Guzzle Buddy is as great an invension as the Beerbelly, but you won’t be convincing me that it shouldn’t come up during a conversation about the shortlist of the best something or other. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBczM0Kzlbc The original guzzle buddy turns your wine bottle into your oversized XL wine glass. It is …
I don’t think of myself as a technophobe who’s against advancement, but quite often I do find myself pondering what benefit there is to civilization in the existence of things like smart toasters, ovens that sport more circuits than the shitty old computer I’m writing this on or text message and internet connected tea kettles. …
People will believe any damn thing. This is a fact. And should you decide that now might be a fine time to work out your contrarian muscles and not take my word for it, I give you this. Oh come on, Steve. This is so obviously a terrible idea, not to mention a prank. It …
No, not the Jonathan Coulton song, although you can have that too since I’m feeling generous. This overTHERE is a new free iPhone app designed for blind folks that looks like it might be worth playing with. overTHERE is a free iPhone app that gives blind pedestrians quick and easy access to accurate location information …
I’ve said my piece as has everyone else on the idea of backdooring encryption in such a way that only the “good guys” can break it for the purposes of saving humanity, and haven’t really felt the need to keep harping away on it every time a new story comes up. But today I read …
I have a question. The other day, my dad called me. While we were talking, he said that he had been trying to call my sister but her voicemail was full and he couldn’t leave a message. I texted her to let her know, and when she wrote back, I was floored. “I know it’s …
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