Captioning Telephone

This  Captioning Telephone allows you to “see” the phone calls you cannot hear. It comes with a large display screen and has free voice-to-caption service to produce the text for the captions. No special equipment is required to make it work*, though a high speed Internet connection is required. One good feature is the ability to save captions

Readability plugins for your browser

If you don’t use Safari and it’s built-in “Reader” functionality these web browser plugins could be just the ticket. Readability Redux extension for Chrome Readability addon for Firefox “Readability is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the cluter around what you’re reading.”

Transcribe Podcasts

Back in October 2005, in a post titled “RSS to Lyrics” I asked the question “how does someone who cannot hear ‘listen’ to a podcast?” To save you going there, here’s the quoted paragraph: Anyway, how does someone who cannot hear ‘listen’ to a podcast? How does audio get translated to a visual format –

Retro LED Watch

Take me back to the 70s! This cool looking retro watch caught my attention the other day. It’s a watch with the old LEDs for the numbers that would give anyone old enough to remember the first calculators a warm glow inside them – c’mon, admit it! The thought I had was how much easier

RSS to lyrics

I’ve been sitting on this post for a while. I spotted this article on converting a RSS feed into a Lyrics file and thought there’s something in this but din’t really know what. Surely the idea that RSS can be read on a portable device, especially some low-cost mp3 player with a screen, would be

Horizontal Reading

Following on from a previous post titled horizontal computing on my previous blog, here’s a spin on a reading in bed device. While this article from popgadget talks about the device called the Rainbow book stand from the perspective of being a help for aching muscles from copious reading in bed – it makes me