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Seeing With Your Tongue
Seeing with your tongue. By RON SEELY, 608-252-6131,
rseely@madison.com

Roger Behm lost his sight at 16, the victim of an inherited disease that destroyed his retinas. Both of his eyes were surgically removed.

Now 55, Behm has made himself at home in a sightless world. He started his own business in Janesville selling devices that help the blind cope with day-to-day tasks. He and his wife have raised five children and just adopted another child from China who is also blind. He fishes, canoes, camps and scuba dives.
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Manufacturers Determine Hybrid Cars Should Have Noise Generators
The sound of silence May 7th 2009

From The Economist print edition Sound generators will make electric and hybrid cars safer WHEN cars run on electric power they not only save fuel and cut emissions but also run more quietly. Ordinarily, people might welcome quieter cars on the roads. However, as the use of hybrid and electric vehicles grows, a new concern is growing too: pedestrians and cyclists find it hard to hear them coming, especially when the cars are moving slowly through a busy town or manoeuvring in a car park. Some drivers say that when their cars are in electric mode people are more likely to step out in front of them. The solution, many now believe, is to fit electric and hybrid cars with external sound systems.
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Pressure Increasing To Remove Copyright Violaters From The Internet
ISPs assist in cutting off file-sharing users By Becky Waring

Internet service providers are cooperating more and more with copyright holders to crack down on illegal downloading and peer-to-peer file-sharing. Some of the changes are due to strict new piracy laws, but others appear to arise from sheer self-interest on the ISPs’ part.
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WI-FI To Go
Times Technology news for Thursday 4/7/2009
State of the Art Wi-Fi to Go, No Cafe Needed
By [8]DAVID POGUE
Someday, we’ll tell our grandchildren how we had to drive around town looking for a coffee shop when we needed to get online, and they’ll laugh their heads off. Every building in America has running water, electricity and ventilation; what’s the holdup on universal wireless Internet?
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Zombie Computers Make Dramatic Rise
BBC NEWS Zombie computers “on the rise”
By Maggie Shiels Technology Reporter,

BBC News, Silicon Valley Twelve million computers have been hijacked by cyber-criminals and detected by security vendor McAfree since January, the firm has said. It reports there has been a 50% increase in the number of detected so-called “zombie” computers since 2008.
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Louis Braille Coin Will Be Launched Into Space
Louis Braille Coin Will Be Launched Into Space Thursday, March 26, 2009

BALTIMORE, March 26, 2009 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ —-In a surprise announcement at the launch ceremony for the new Louis Braille Bicentennial Silver Dollar, NASA announced that the new commemorative coin celebrating the life and work of the inventor of the reading code for the blind will fly on a future space shuttle mission. The announcement, by NASA Deputy Administrator for Educational Programs Dr. Joyce Winterton, came at the end of the official event announcing the availability of this beautiful new coin, which will help the National Federation of the Blind to increase Braille literacy in the United States.
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Watch Out For Fake E Mails Peddling Counterfeit Flu Medications
BOSTON (Reuters)
Exploiting worries over the swine flu outbreak, spammers flooded the Internet on Monday with millions of e-mails peddling counterfeit drugs as remedies and seeking to steal credit card data, a security firm said.

Many of the e-mails direct recipients to websites for fake online pharmacies, according to McAfee Inc, the world’s second-largest security software maker. They offer promised treatments for the virus.
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Walt Disney World Device’s audio feature helps blind visualize rides
OrlandoSentinel.com
Heard but not seen at Disney: Device helps blind visualize rides Disney adds audio for the blind to attraction device that has captions for deaf patrons Jason Garcia | Sentinel Staff Writer April 16, 2009
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Seniors Flocking To The Web
MADRID (AFP)
Young people largely drove the early stages of Internet growth but in recent years the sharpest rise in Web use in developed nations has been amongst people aged 70 and over, experts said Monday. “Older adults are the fastest growing demographic on the Internet,” said Professor Vicki Hanson of the School of Computing at Scotland’s University of Dundee on the opening day of a global World Wide Web conference in Madrid.
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