Allison interviews Elizabeth Evans, owner and CEO of Maggie Vision, about their lightweight, wearable headset designed for people with low vision. The Maggie iVR headset provides magnification and color contrast vision enhancement for the user. To use Maggie iVR, the user slides their iPhone into the back of the headset. The iPhone’s basic camera functions […]
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CSUN 2024: ReBokeh iOS App for People with Vision Impairment
Allison interviews Emerson Maggi from ReBokeh about their iOS app that helps people with low vision use their iPhone more easily. Rebokeh is working on a similar app for Android phones. The ReBokeh app makes use of the camera on your existing iOS device and enables adjustments to contrast, brightness, colors, and inversion filters. It […]
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Portal — Immersive Soundscapes for Focus or Relaxation
Recently, there has been a groundswell of ambient noise applications. These are intended to provide a background level of noise to help you focus, relax, or even sleep. The simplest may offer white noise, and a few other colours of noise. More feature rich examples may add in other, natural sounds like rain, a crackling […]
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The Photographer’s Ephemeris – by Kurt Liebezeit
TPE on iPad and iPhone This is a review of the iOS and iPadOS app called “The Photographer’s Ephemeris,” from Crookneck Apps. The Photographer’s Ephemeris is a photography planning application, specifically an app for planning landscape photography involving the sun or the moon. Recall for a moment Ansel Adam’s celebrated photograph of “Moon and Half […]
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NC #732 Sorry for a Company, Tesla Tech App, Security Bits
Expect a few extra Podfeet Press emails over the next few days as I fix the Programming By Stealth RSS feed. I’ll talk about how silly I think it is that people feel sorry for Samsung with their folding phones. I’ve got my first installment of Tesla Tech where I’ll tell you all about the […]
Continue readingKlok Time Zone Converter – by Helma from The Netherlands
This is just a little review of an iOS app called Klok I came across when browsing the app store on my phone. I was intrigued by its name so I installed it and it turned out to be quite useful. What’s the problem it solves? When you have friends or business relations in multiple […]
Continue readingCES 2017: C-me Selfie Drone
Allison interviews Gordon Cockburn from Hobbico about their new C-me selfie drone. C-me is a compact flying camera that folds up to fit in your pocket. It comes equipped with a 1080p video camera that also takes 8 Mpix still photos. C-me will share your selfie video or still photos immediately on your social media […]
Continue readingCES 2016: Ditto Wearable Notification
Allison interviews Neal Pecchenino about the new Ditto clip-on wearable device. Ditto is a simple and discrete device that provides vibrations to notify the wearer of incoming calls or messages. Using the Ditto app, the user pre-selects a unique vibration pattern for each caller or message sender. The app then notifies the wearer with the […]
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