9 Tips for Using AI for Learning (and Fun!)
By Daniel Leonard for Edutopia These innovative, AI-driven activities will help you engage students across grade levels and subject areas. Artificial...
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Thanks to Voiceitt-Amazon collab: “Hey Alexa” sounds the same no matter your voice
By Dor Schwartz reprint from Geektime The Israeli firm targets inclusion and independence through technology, now powering Alexa with speech...
The 5 Coolest Gadgets for Assistive Technology in 2020
Reprint from Motobility Firstly, what is assistive technology? Assistive Technology is any device or piece of technology, being large or...
Touching moments in prosthetics: New bionic limbs that can ‘feel’
By Payal Dhar for STUFF Doctoral student Jacob George, left, and professor Greg Clark examine the LUKE arm, a motorized...
Smart Cane That Uses Google Maps and Sensors to Identify One’s Surroundings
By McKinley Corbley – for The Good News Network This electronic walking stick is revolutionizing the way that blind people...
Hearing aids are getting smarter. Think AI, health tracking
By Shara Tibken, Roger Cheng for CNET This is part of CNET’s “Tech Enabled” series about the role technology plays...
World’s First Assistive Mouse Adapter for iPad and iPhone to Make iOS Devices Accessible to All
By AT Today CSS MicroSystems, a German manufacturer of electronic assistive technology, has launched AMAneo BTi, an adapter that can...
Brain Implants Capable of Turning Thought into Speech
By Mark Terry (reprint from BioSpace ) Researchers with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) developed a “neural decoder”...
Lightweight Exoskeleton Provides Independent Mobility
by Kenny Walter – Digital Reporter – @RandDMagazine Everyday tasks like grocery shopping can be exceedingly difficult for those who...
WSU Smart Home Tests First Elder Care Robot
By Will Ferguson, WSU News A robot created by Washington State University scientists could help elderly people with dementia and...
Microsoft – Bringing our accessibility awareness game today and every day
By: Jenny Lay-Flurrie – Microsoft Chief Accessibility Officer Microsoft announces new technology and resources for people with disabilities. The goal of...
The Xbox Adaptive Controller is Microsoft’s answer to gamers with limited mobility
By Cal Jeffrey (Techspot) Microsoft just announced a new controller for the Xbox One that will bring accessibility to gaming...
Apple’s Everyone Can Code Curriculum Expanding to Schools Serving Blind and Deaf Students
By: Joe Rossignol (MacRumors Newsletter) Apple announced that its Everyone Can Code curriculum is expanding to schools serving deaf, blind,...
Microsoft wants to use AI to help people with disabilities
By Devindra Hardawar (Engadget) One of Microsoft’s biggest announcements at Build this year is all about using artificial intelligence for...
How Artificial Intelligence is Improving Assistive Technology
By Matthew Lynch (The Tech Edvocate) The advances in technology could mean more for society than just new educational technology...
