Talking Tech by Vision Australia Radio
Talking Tech by Vision Australia Radio
Playlist by Talking Tech by Vision Australia RadioVision Australia's Access Technology Officer Damo McMorrow talks with Stephen Jolley about the latest developments and gadgets in the tech world from a blindness and low vision perspective.560 clip(s) in playlist
Talking Tech 6th May 2025
In the final edition of this 13 year long weekly program: Damo reflects on his eleven and a half years with Vision Australia and explains his new role with the Commonwealth’s Administrative Review Tribunal; He demonstrates his recently acquired fully accessible Air Hover X1 drone; and He explains t…
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Talking Tech 29th April 2025
This week Damo shows us his recently acquired WEWalk Smart Cane 2. This includes a description of the cane, along with feature demonstrations including its object detection, favourite locations and more. This product is available from the Vision Store, shop.visionaustralia.org. There is also a rem…
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Talking Tech 22nd April 2025
This week we cover: A description of the fully accessible Yamaha FGDP30 electronic drumkit Advice of a battery draining issue with the WeWalk Smart Cane 2; and News of the most recent update to the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. To access the program, presented each week by Stephen Jolley and Damo Mc…
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Talking Tech 15th April 2025
This week we cover: The recently introduced Projects function included in ChatGPT for both the online and mobile app environments; The ‘dictate’ function in the AI tool of Freedom Scientific known as FS Companion; A prototype haptic device for following live sport, known as One Court which was on s…
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Talking Tech 8th April 2025
This week we cover: Information about the Vision Australia Alexa Smart Home Program with inquiries welcome at voiceassist@visionaustralia.org; News of the latest updates to the BT Speak from Blazie Technology with further information at https://blazietech.com; News of the Orbit Speak from Orbit Res…
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Talking Tech 1st April 2025
News of the imminent release of Apple software updates. Then from his CSUN discoveries, Damo’s account of: two new distance camera low vision aids, the Magnibot from Trisight and the Snowpad from Zoomax; A new braille display technology being developed by New Haptics; An AI mobility aid from Make…
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Talking Tech 25th March 2025
This week upon Damo’s return from the CSUN Assistive Technology conference in California, he begins a series of explanations of various products that took his attention. In this program he covers: The Glide mobility device from Glidance; The Echo Vision smart glasses from Agiga; and The Tactonom R…
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Talking Tech 18th March 2025
This week while Damo returns from the CSUN Assistive Technology conference in California, Stephen speaks with Steve Monigatti, a Vision Australia Service Development Lead. The conversation includes: Steve’s 18 year history with Vision Australia; His current role; The various activities of Access Te…
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Talking Tech 11th March 2025
This week while Damo attends the CSUN Assistive Technology conference in California, we mark International Women’s Day in conversation between Stephen and blind assistive technologist Ramona Mandy. Ramona recalls her time as an Adult Braille Training Instructor with Royal Victorian Institute for t…
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Talking Tech 4th March 2025
This week we cover: News of the imminent roll out of Amazon Alexa Plus; Information about a blindness and low vision oriented Linux Resource at http://blindlinux.com. (Note no ‘s’ before the ‘:’). Damo is off to the assistive technology conference at CSUN in California and talks about his preparati…
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