tech.yahoo.com - 1/9/2009
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The craze for touch-screen gadgets, sparked by Apple Inc's popular iPhone , is raising worries that a whole generation of consumer electronics will be out of the reach of the blind. Motown icon Stevie Wonder and other advocates came to the world's biggest gadget fest, the ...
tech.yahoo.com - 1/15/2009
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Regular mobile phone use does
not appear to increase a person's risk of getting...
a type of cancer called melanoma of the eye, German researchers said on Tuesday. The study involving about 1,600 people detected no link between ...
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Study sees no eye cancer risk from mobile phones ...
tech.yahoo.com - 1/16/2009
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - A new light-bending material has
brought scientists one step closer to creating a cloaking...
device that could hide objects from sight. Beyond possible military applications, it also might have a very practical use by making mobile ...
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Cloaking device may make cell phone static vanish ...
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Stevie Wonder goes to CES, appeals to electronics companies to consider the blind
Boy Genius Report —
Since the first iPhone was announced two years ago today, manufacturers of pretty much anything and everything electronic have been trying to cash in on the insatiable consumer demand for anything with a touchscreen. They’re definitely convenient, but a lot of times they seem to be more of a hassle than a benefit due to bloated GUIs that give some people, such as the legally blind, great difficulties. It was because of this that music legend Stevie Wonder went to CES yesterday to ask electronics manufacturers to consider those with visual ailments when ...
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... -- If all cellphones were touch-screen, Stevie Wonder and other blind people might not be able to call to say they love you. At CES, they ask companies to make products more accessible to the blind. Reuters via Yahoo ...
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