http://www.aisquared.com/news aisquared news Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:18:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you're curious about your options for listening to digital audio books, magazines, and newspapers while on the move, read on. While anyone can purchase and download audio books and magazines from websites such as audible.com or purchase audio books on CD from Amazon.com and rip these to a portable MP3 ... http://www.aisquared.com/news/?p=73 The November ZoomNews survey polled our readers about portable video magnifiers. If you are interested in the results of this survey, you can view them here in a PDF file. The results are presented in both graphical and text form. We'd like to congratulate the winners of the November survey drawing, ... http://www.aisquared.com/news/?p=72 Studying molecular and cell biology. Investigating the enzyme telomerase and its implications in cancer and aging. Pipetting radioactive materials. Running an undergraduate biochemistry lab. Impressed? It's all in a day's work for Tracy Niday, and she says none of it would be possible without the help of ZoomText. Tracy is ... http://www.aisquared.com/news/?p=71 Tango lessons for blind teens Visually impaired kids learn dance,gain social skills and self-confidence at The Shimmy Club. Project Insight City program helps visually impaired gardeners develop an eye for vegetables. Independent Travel for the Visually Impaired - Traveleyes offers the possibility of world travel to the visually impaired.Its founder, ... http://www.aisquared.com/news/?p=70 "Curb Cuts" is a TV show about assistive technology (AT) produced by the Central Coast Assistive Technology Center. Episode #5 deals with assistive technology for individuals with low vision. Brianna Barnett, Dorothy Erinakes, and Thomas Athanasian share how they use technology such as CCTVs and ZoomText screen magnification software to ... http://www.aisquared.com/news/?p=69 Computers have become increasingly ever-present in our lives, and so has our need to access and use them everywhere we go - at home, school, work, and even in libraries and other public facilities. This need for public computer access is no different for users of ZoomText. ... http://www.aisquared.com/news/?p=68 Almost 20 years ago, Susan Reed started to notice that her eyesight was deteriorating.  Soon after that, she learned that her failing vision was due to Stargardt’s Disease, a hereditary macular (central retinal) degenerative disorder.  Even though Susan is considered high functioning, she had to leave ... http://www.aisquared.com/news/?p=67 Have you been to the Ai Squared forum lately?  It’s been around for a while – of course, not quite as long as the Roman Forum pictured over there – it’s been up on our website since 2004.  Maybe you visit it often or perhaps you ... http://www.aisquared.com/news/?p=66 In every issue of ZoomNews, we will present a few links to articles that we’ve come across that would be of interest to our users.  Check them out: Cooking Without Looking – a television show that teaches people about low vision cooking. Smart ... http://www.aisquared.com/news/?p=65 Don’t miss the Assistive Technology Industry Association (ATIA) 2008 Conference, January 30th through February 2nd, 2008 in Orlando, Florida – the premier educational and networking event in assistive technology. The ATIA 2008 Conference features the latest products and services, showcasing more than 125 exhibitors, in one ... http://www.aisquared.com/news/?p=64