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Comment Consider helping the visually impaired (Score 1) 301

by miguelfrommars (#41107439) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Use For an Old Smartphone?

I'm in a Lions club and dabble in IT for the visually impaired.

If you want your smart phone to make a difference in the world, put some apps on the phone, connect to a TV, set it up and help a visually impaired child or adult who struggles to read their mail or a book. Best of all, it's free. Visually impaired people are the most financially strapped people you will meet.

A smart phone with a camera that can be attached to a television works much better than magnifying glasses. Besides zooming in and out, smart phones have accessibility options that can change contrast, colors, and other useful functions that work very well for the visually impaired.

Without cell or wireless you can sometimes manually install apps that are helpful. Unfortunately some apps I really like will not function without service.

My experience is droid (hdmi capable). Not sure about discarded iPhones but somebody else probably has experience with that.

You can do this in any community, anywhere in the world. You are guaranteed an endless supply of old smart phones and a lot of appreciative people.
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Alberta Scientists Discover Largest-Ever Cache of Dinosaur Bones 154

Posted by Soulskill from the dino-mother-lode dept.
Cryolithic writes "The largest cache of dinosaur bones ever found has been unearthed in Alberta. From the article: '... officials at the Royal Tyrrell Museum say the Hilda site provides the first solid evidence that some horned dinosaur herds were much larger than previously thought, with numbers comfortably in the high hundreds to low thousands. ... Rather than picturing the animals as drowning while crossing a river, a classic scenario that has been used to explain bonebed occurrences at many sites in Alberta, the research team interpreted the vast coastal landscape as being submerged during tropical storms or hurricanes. With no high ground to escape to, most of the members of the herd drowned in the rising coastal waters. Carcasses were deposited in clumps across kilometers of ancient landscape as floodwaters receded.'"

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