Category: Technology

MyScript Calculator – the Free Handwriting Calculator

If you or a student you work with have difficulty writing numbers and mathematical symbols legibly if  required to use pen or pencil, check out  MyScript Calculator . This app,  makes it possible for anyone to  a stylus or  finger to enter handwritten numbers and symbols into a calculator on an Android or iOS handheld device.

The app is free from VisionObjects. It offers a “handwriting calculator” that works remarkably well.  The calculator works just as well for basic computation as it does for more complex mathematics.

BENEFITS AND FEATURES

  • Works on your smartphone (Android & iOS)
  • Works on your tablet (Android & iOS)
  • Use your handwriting to write any arithmetic formula.
  • Write and calculate mathematical expressions in an intuitive and natural way with no keyboard
  • Supported mathematical symbols:
    • +, -, x, ÷, +/-, 1/x, ()
    • %, √, x!, |x|
    • ℯx, xy , x2 
    • cos, sin, tan
    • acos, asin, atan
    • ln , log
    • π, ℯ,
  • Scratch-out gestures to easily delete symbols and numbers

The video below  illustrates what this app can do. The video shows the app on Android. Numerical expressions can be copied easily and used in other apps.

Manage Your Time with Timely Time Teller App for iOS

Timely Time Teller is a simple  iOS app that gives  users repeating alerts at specified  intervals. When alerts are turned on, Timely verbally tells you the time at  set intervals.  The app is nicely described in the video below.  Its very simplicity makes this an attractive and useful app for many reasons. It could be especially useful for those who have difficulties with executive functions.

Click here to view in the App Store.

Ruby Slippers Take You Wherever You Want to Go

In a recent post at one of my favorite library blogs iLibrarian, I read about some Ruby Slippers.  I was amazed at what these oxfords, with bright red laces could do.   According to Lambert Varias at Technobob:

These shoes won’t take you home when you click your heels, but they will help you get there. Made by British artist Dominic Wilcox, the No Place Like Home shoes points the wearer to the right way via the magic of GPS.

The shoes  have a GPS receiver on the heel of the left shoe that can be used to punch in an address. Once the receiver knows where you want to go, LEDs on the left shoe indicate the direction to take, while a line of LEDs on the right shoe provides a rough estimate of proximity to the destination.

I couldn’t help but wonder if shoes such as these would be of benefit to individuals who are blind or visually impaired or the elderly who experience Alzheimer or dementia.

A little bit of research and I discovered this video which shows that GPS shoes are being used to  give dementia sufferers freedom and allows caregivers to keep track of them.