Blind Bargains Audio: Featuring the BB Qast, Technology news, Interviews, and more

Blind Bargains Audio: Featuring the BB Qast, Technology news, Interviews, and more


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#CSUNATC17 Audio: Second Sight May be able to Bring you Sight this Second
March 09, 2017

The Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System is a fancy name, but simply put,it is a system which can return vision to persons with certain eye conditions. It's also an operation that may be covered by insurance in some states. J.J. is joined by Duane Tsutsui,

#CSUNATC17 Audio: Wearable Navigation with the Sunu Band Smart-Watch
March 09, 2017

The Sunu Band Ultrasonic Smart-Watch is a wearable device which includes a variety of sensors and features to aid the wearer in navigating indoor and outdoor spaces. J.J. is joined by Marco Trujillo, CEO of Sunu who tells us more about the device which wi

#CSUNATC17 Audio: Humanware is Updating All the Things
March 09, 2017

A year ago, Humanware debuted the BrailleNote Touch at CSUN as the first combination Android notetaker and tablet. Since that time, a lot has changed with the Touch and other Humanware products, so Joe caught up with Greg Stilson, Product Manager for Blin

#CSUNATC17 Audio: Enhanced Vision has some MoJo, Plus the Return of the Jordy
March 09, 2017

There is a lot of magnification products at CSUN but Enhanced Vision has debuted something a bit different. The MoJo Electronic Monocular is a battery-operated and full-color monocular designed to view things that are near you such as text, store prices,

#CSUNATC17 Audio: The Dot Watch is Real, and Brings Braille to your Wrist
March 08, 2017

After a lot of waiting, the Dot Watch, the first refreshable braille smart watch, is just about ready for primetime. Alex Lee, Director of Sales and Marketing for Dot Incorporation joins J.J. to talk about the watch and its many features including display

#CSUNATC17 Audio: VFO Adds OCR to the ONYX Video Magnifier
March 08, 2017

The ONYX electronic video magnifier from Freedom Scientific, a part of VFO, now includes the capability to read text through OCR. Shelly speaks with Bill Kilroy, Sales Director for VFO's Northeast Territory, to learn about and hear a demo of this new mag

#CSUNATC17 Audio: The NeoBraille Redux
March 08, 2017

The NeoBraille is a product we first played with in 2016 but it was subsequently retooled and improved before it was ever released. Thomas Simpson, the Director of Marketing for Irie-AT and Young-Gwan Noh, President and Tony Han, Sales Manager for NeoAcce

#CSUNATC17 Audio: Price Check at Booth 401, Now Available for the I.D. Mate Galaxy
March 08, 2017

If you ever went to a store and wondered if you could buy the same item for less online, a new update for the I.D. Mate Galaxy may be of use. David Raistrick, Vice President and CTO for En-Vision America joins Joe to talk about the new online price check

#CSUNATC17 Audio: The Winding and Long Road for NVAccess
March 07, 2017

We love the candidness from the expanding team at NVAccess about the direction that NVDA is taking and were thrilled they came over to our suite to share some of the latest developments. J.J. is joined by Jamie Teh, Reef Turner, Quentin Christensen, and M

#CSUNATC17 Audio: A Relatively Affordable Production Braille Embosser from American Thermoform
March 07, 2017

Introduced last summer at the World Blind Union and ICEVI General Assembly in Orlando, The Braillo 300 S2 is a redesigned double-sided embosser which prints on tractor feed paper at 300 characters per second or roughly 1,000 pages per hour. Robert Jaquiss