A Reminder About the New Times for Tech Monday and Exploring Tech Webinars

Tech Monday replaces Tech Friday and is now on at 1930 to 2030 Sydney time.

The exploring tech webinars are still on the last Wednesday of the Month, but are now on at 1930 to 2030 Sydney time as well.

Some Notable Things from CES

1. Update to the Ember Temperature Controlled Mug: will work with Find My. One thing I will be upgrading this year.

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/01/05/ember-mug-with-apple-find-my/

2. New Health Sensors, test your Urine. Another biometric to check on your health.

3. Rings Home security Drone. Probably only want to have it flying around when you are not home.

4. Graphics Braille displays. Looking forward to the displays from Dot and APH hopefully coming out this year.

5. Of course, lots of robots, TVS, laptops, smart home stuff etc.

Celebrating Louis Braille DOB of for Jan 4 1809

https://www.firstpost.com/world/world-braille-day-2023-history-and-significance-11916972.html

New Apps for the Blind Shell Classic 2

Chess, Currency converter, File manager, and Translation.

https://shop.visionaustralia.org/blindshell-classic-2-mobile-phone-black.html

Apple Introducing Human Generated Text to Speech Voices for Audio Books

Actually, it doesn’t sound to bad, so Don’t Panic.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/04/apple-artificial-intelligence-ai-audiobooks

Apple Patents an Apple Pencil that can Detect Colours and Textures

Possible implications if this becomes a thing for blind or low vision folks.

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/01/03/apple-pencil-patent-real-world-color-sampler/

Millions of Twitter Users Email Address’s Stolen in Data Hack

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64153381?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA