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Colour sensing device

I knew my love of shiny objects would come in handy one day and guess what popped up on Yanko's RSS feed this morning, only a brilliant concept for the visually impaired and colour blind. The Bright-F by Lifeng Yu works by sensing hue, saturation and brightness and sends auditory feedback to the user. This will be an invaluable tool for VI users with getting dressed along with washing and buying clothes.

Sounds such a simple idea I'm surprised no one thought of it before, unfortunately this is a still only a concept but I'm guessing some Compu-global Hyper-mega-net type company will take this on and win a Nobel prize.

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Alphasmart Neo – Price Drop

Yep the long-lived Neo has just had a price drop in the UK of £20 to £149 + VAT, probably in response to the threat from the Asus eeePC. The release of the Asus must have had some wondering about the future of the Neo but it does have its place in the education market. First off is its battery life, a Neo can live of its AA batteries for a couple of thousand hours, it’s a tough little unit and there’s no security issues. So for some it’s more suitable than the webcam, email, wifi and games enabled Asus.

Rumour has it a supplemental Neo model will be release in the summer that will feature wireless printing and classroom voting buttons.

Neo product page