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The Last Walk

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A few flashes of the former dog showed as she eagerly sniffed a tree or two at the beginning of the walk, but eventually settled into a slow routine. As she slowly went around the block, limping and stumbling over cracks in the sidewalk, I began to realize that this might be the last time I get to take her on a walk around the block.

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DIAGRAM Center

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Of course, just as we're solving the text problem, more and more content is moving to richer, more visual forms like graphics, simulations and flash! This is becoming crucially important as the problem of delivering access to text is increasingly solved by the move to ebook publishing and solutions like our Bookshare library.

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Reverse Engineering the Nissan Leaf's Range Display

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Low and behold, just after passing the apex of the bridge, the display flashed and our range went dark. Soon, the car started all sorts of warnings that we were running out of energy. No chance missing that we were reaching the twilight zone of our range! How much safety margin had the Leaf engineers built in?

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The Kindle: Pretty Cool!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The flash at each page turn was initially bothersome, but quickly faded from notice. I bought my Kindle on the first day of availability, and received it the day before Thanksgiving (2007). By the end of Thanksgiving, I finished reading my first book, Stardust. It's comfortable to hold and to read.

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MagnaFlyer: New Tech Helping People with Central Vision Loss

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Denny Moyer, Executive Director of Colorado-based Ensight Skills Centers for Low Vision Rehabilitation , who introduced me to MagnaFlyer, told me that users can read a given amount of text several times faster by having the words rapidly flash by in this way, when compared to traditional approaches to reading the same text.

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