techly :Your old smartphone could help Australia's deafblind community :2016-09-03
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Your old smartphone could help Australia's deafblind community
Your old, unwanted smartphone could be the vital link to connect Australia's deafblind community with wider society.Unwanted smartphones are an extremely valuable tool – allowing those with deafblindness to communicate through speech recognition and Braille display technology.With an estimated 288,000 Australians living without hearing and sight, MobileMuster and Able Australia have joined forces to help make a difference."Deafblindness is very much Australia's forgotten disability," said Able Australia's Scott Darkin.
How recycling your old smartphone could change someone's life
Enlarge Image Able AustraliaMichael Doherty can't live without his iPhone.He sends text messages to his friends, uses the phone to check football scores and even followed the Olympics this year.Being both deaf and blind, it's one of the few ways Doherty can interact the world.The combination of hearing and vision disabilities makes navigating the world incredibly difficult.
Remote wireless charging for your smartphone could be closer than you think
It has been almost a year since we first saw TechNovator's XE wireless charging station powering up a smartphone wirelessly from across the room.Back then, the prototype was a huge mess of wires and the power transmitter was huge.Today at IFA in Berlin, we saw the latest version of TechNovator XE, a power router with a stylish, twisted design powering up an iPhone 6, wearing what looked like an ordinary battery case."We would like to find out how much consumer demand there is for this product," TechNovator CEO, Ivan Chuba, told Digital Trends.
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