The Vision Store is available to anyone in the community who would like to have a bit of help with being able to see things that bit better.

We had a campaign a while ago now which was called “when glasses no longer help”, a now a new campaign called Tech for Your eyes”.

Check it out at the Vision Store website:

Https://shop.visionaustralia.org

Biped/Noa.

A wearable over the shoulders device  (like wearing a vest) that does Navigation Obstacle (detection), and AI, hence its name NOA.

I’ve not seen something like this that I had hands on for a day last week which has impressed me so much.

Https://biped.ai

iPate a Conversational AI to scam the scammers from Macquarie Uni

As far as I can tell, a bit of a test of Ai Bots to scam the scammers.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/07/ai-chatbots-phone-scams

Are Visual Models Actually Blind

Actually yes they are to some extent.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/11/are-visual-ai-models-actually-blind/

How to use your Smart Phone One Handed

Great tip for Android and iPhone users when using large screen phones ththese days to enable you to pull down the icons from the top of the screen so you can reach them with one hand,.

https://www.theverge.com/24201413/iphone-android-ios-samsung-one-hand-how-to

Of course, we also talked about Crowd Strike, we’ve probably heard way to much smile.