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You know you've arrived when music legend Stevie Wonder, who is blind, takes your brand new robotic device for the blind for a spin at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.Outfitted in his trademark dark glasses, Wonder pushes what looks like a miniature vacuum cleaner -- with big wheels attached to a stick -- along a corridor, makes a turn, and comes back.Also: The 15 best robots and AI tech we saw at CES 2024It may not look very sophisticated for a robot, but Amos Miller -- founder and inventor of the 'Glide'…

There’s no escaping it now.We are a deeply divided country in the midst of a presidential campaign in which the mental acuity of an 81-year-old sitting president will be one of the central issues through November, possibly eclipsing the economy, climate change, immigration and reproductive rights.This is happening in the middle of an unprecedented demographic shift, just several years out from the first time in human history in which people 65 and older outnumber people 18 and under, with many millions of people…

Screenshot by David Grober/ZDNETEven before the generative AI boom, the Google Lookout app leveraged AI to assist the visually impaired and blind community explore their surroundings using their phone cameras. Launched in March 2019, the app recently added a handy AI-powered feature -- Image Q+A. Also: What is Google Bard? Here's everything you need to knowThe Image Q+A feature allows users to ask questions about an image by uploading the photo and using their voice or entering text. The user will then receive a…

Have you ever struggled to see something in the dark, or to read a small print or to recognize a familiar face? If you have, you are not alone. Many people face these challenges every day, and they can affect their quality of life and independence. But what if there were a way to enhance your vision with the power of artificial intelligence? CLICK TO GET KURT’S FREE CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH SECURITY ALERTS, QUICK VIDEO TIPS, TECH REVIEWS, AND EASY HOW-TO’S TO MAKE YOU SMARTER The app that narrates the world for you …

Alcohol-impaired crash deaths hit nearly a 15-year high in December of 2021 with more than 1,000 people dying.U.S. auto safety regulators say they have taken the first step toward requiring devices in vehicles that prevent drunk or impaired driving.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced on Tuesday that it is starting the process to put a new federal safety standard in place requiring the technology in all new passenger vehicles.Such devices were…

First up is text recognition. Fire up the app and hold your phone over a piece of printed or written text. Upon recognition, Seeing AI will start reading the text aloud until it gets to the end.Next is document recognition. Hold your phone over a full document, and the app will scan and display the words. You can then listen to the document read aloud by playing, pausing, skipping ahead, or going back as needed.Also: You can send a hug through the internet with this haptic inventionAnother handy feature is a barcode…

Enhancing Visual Impairment Navigation: Integrating GPT-4V(ision) and TTS for Advanced Sensory AssistanceContinue reading on Towards Data Science » Enhancing Visual Impairment Navigation: Integrating GPT-4V(ision) and TTS for Advanced Sensory AssistanceContinue reading on Towards Data Science » FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All…

Researchers from the University of California, San Diego, have discovered that Gulf War Illness (GWI), a chronic condition affecting veterans of the 1991 Gulf War, is primarily driven by impaired mitochondrial function, not inflammation as previously believed. The study, which could lead to improved treatment strategies, also suggests that similar mitochondrial impairments might underlie other inflammation-marked conditions.UC San Diego scientists contest longstanding hypothesis about mysterious illness affecting Gulf War…

The world changed for all of us when we were suddenly plunged into a pandemic in 2020. COVID sent us into a series of lockdowns in a bid to control the spread of the virus until a vaccine could be developed.Most of us knew that a vaccine would be the key to our post-pandemic lives. But what about those of us who knew nothing of the world before COVID?Our research group wanted to understand what life was like for babies born during the pandemic, and what it might mean for their general health and development.In our latest…

Researchers from Yale found that obesity is associated with diminished brain response to nutrient intake, which doesn’t recover even after weight loss. The study offers insights into why maintaining weight loss is challenging for some people and emphasizes the significant role of the human brain in obesity.A new research study reveals a diminished response to nutrients among people with obesity — and that this brain response is not recovered after weight loss.After a person eats, the gut dispatches a series of signals to…