Coming Soon! Super Lidar – The First Lidar App for iPhone 12 Pro Series. LiDAR – Light Distance and Ranging from the Makers of Supersense AI for the Blind

Show Summary: Shane Lowe returns to the Blind Abilities Studio to bring us some more breaking news as he announces a new iOS app called Super Lidar. This app will use the latest features found in the iPhone 12 Pro series utilizing the Lidar sensor and technology. Lidar is a technology that uses light to find distance and range and can be incorporated into apps for mapping and finding distances from objects, walls and people. Developers are...

Supersence – AI for Blind: A Smart Scanner App that Automatically Detects Text, Currency, Barcodes and Much More! Meet Shane Lowe – Community Manager at Supersence

Show Summary: Shane Lowe, Community Manager at Supersense, joins Jeff Thompson and Angie Fisher in the Blind Abilities Studio. Shane gives a good description and describes the many features pact inside the Supersense App. From Automatic Smart Scanning, Object Detection, Bar Code Reading and the availability to extract and share text, use links and so much more. Join Jeff and Angie as Shane talks about how Supersense came about and how he got...

Tech Abilities: Girls Talk Tech and There’s Just 1 JT. Fitness Plus About to Drop, Air Pod Max Go Ching-Ching, Blind, a Noun, Adjective or just a 5-Letter Word? What about Flying Dogs?

Show Summary: Serina, Raqi, Jeff and Angie gather around to talk tech and have a conversation about Blindness, Service flying service animals and giving Guide Dogs Angel wings. Yup, you heard it here first. From the latest gems from Apple to the Mantis from APH, the crew digs in about news, releases and experience not just tech experience, life experience as well. How do you use the word Blind? Do you use Person-First? The topic heats...

Envision AI – Winter Sale 35% OFF, 14-Day Free Trial and a Chance to Win Envision Glasses! Karthik Kannan from Envision Talks OCR, Column Detection, Translating and the Now Available Envision Glasses

Show Summary: Karthik Kannan returned to the Blind Abilities Studio to talk about the Winter Sale on the Envision AI App available in the App Store and the Google Play Store. Now, with a new 14 day trial from Envision, anyone can give the Envision AI app a good go-around. Try out the Instant Text, Document and PDF reading features. Check out the color detection, translate and read from over 50 languages right on your smart phone....

Apple Accessibility – Built‑in Features that Work the Way You Do. Make Them Yours, and Make Something Wonderful.. A Conversation with Sarah Herrlinger, Apple’s Director of Global Accessibility Policy and Initiatives

Full Transcript Show Summary: Sarah Herrlinger joins Raqi Gomez and Jeff Thompson in the Blind Abilities Studio to talk about accessibility and the major refresh of the Apple.com/accessibility web site. With the roll out of all the new Apple products, the Accessibility Team has been working hard to ensure that all the hardware is accessible and even enhancing the access along the way. Lidar, Light Detection and Ranging, is new to the...

Tech Abilities: Talk Less, Smile More – Find My What? Keys to the Kingdom? 5G or Not to 5G? Mac Now or mac Later?

Show Summary Raqi, Angie and Jeff gather before the start of the Holiday Season to talk tech and Jeff gets schooled a bit on how to listen to women, or at least these 2 techies from out West. From the Find My demo, to Apple’s 15% break for the little developers, to 5G settings on the iPhone 12 series, we go, go, go in this Tech Abilities show. We wish all of you a safe Holiday Season and from all of us here at the Blind Abilities Studio,...

Tech Abilities: Girl, Girl, Girl, Oh Boy, Big Sir Control Center, Magnifier People Detection, PC vs Mac Fight, Stitch Fixed, Accessible Shopping and Google Photos App Storage is Gonna Cost Yah!

Full Transcript Show Summary: Serina, Raqi, Angie and Jeff stay socially distanced and still sound great in the Blind Abilities Studio! Who invited Marlon again? Anyways, Serina and Raqi go at it in the Mac Fight of the season. Actually, they state their cases and Angie and Jeff keeps the show running with some tidbits and demos showing the People Detection feature on the iPhone 12 Pros series of iPhones. Big Sir has a new member in the Menu...

Tech Abilities One More Thing Before That One More Thing. Accessible Rowing, Apple One, Could it Kill off Dropbox? Have You Found My Air Tag? If I had a Million…

Show Summary: Raqi, Angie and Jeff are in the studio while Serina gets some well deserved time off. She  told me to write that, yes she did. Marlon pops in with a few One More Things and We are talking Apples, Plans, Accessible Rowing Machine, Audio USB Mixer, New Mic from Shure and notta thing about that election!  Remember, www.NVDACon.org is announcing the upcoming NVDA Convention Dec. 5 and 6. Here are some notes from...

Tech Has the Power to Change Lives, Especially People with Disabilities – Meet Kiran Kaja: Google’s Accessibility Lead for Search, Assistant and News

Full Transcript Show Summary: Kiran Kaja is the Accessibility Lead for Search, Assistant and News at Google. Kiran joins Jeff Thompson in the Blind Abilities Studio for a conversation about Kiran’s journey from a bleak outlook for education to his jobs that led him around the world and to Google. It is not by chance that Kiran made it to where he is today, he followed his passion and is excited each day that he gets to make possibilities come...

Tech Abilities: Put on Your Halos, Pacific Blue is True as the iPhone 12 Pro. One Newbie, One Gremlin and Some T-Vision to Boot. HBO What?

Show Summary: Tech Abilities is back in the saddle or should I say Stagecoach? We got a full studio with Serina, Raqi, Jeff and guest, Angie Fisher. Yes, a full house and a full episode of Breaking News, Insights on the iPhone 12 Pro, HBO and Audio Description, Google Nest Speakers, Halos Tactile Icons, the MagSafe connection from Apple and just a delightful dish being served up in this episode of Tech Abilities. Marlon jumps in now and then...