Convenient for people who have disabilities or are in need of care they offer the chance of greater selfreliance. But not everyone can afford them. Technology is at the center of christiane bottom lines life diagnosed at birth with spinal Muscular Atrophy he can barely use his arms or legs nevertheless he works from home as a Computer Programmer to make things easier he relies on small Time Technology with voice commands he can operate his television or computer mouse im turn on the lights usually need a nurse to help him with that. Also its particularly interesting to me. I have the practical advantage of being able to do lots of stuff that i couldnt earlier. If im of the computer and get cold i can turn the heat up in five seconds without asking for help or. Byline design many of the smart apps himself often based on regular consumer technology. In recent years tech giants have created smart Home Appliances for a mass market apple amazon or google have all launched smart speakers that respond to voice commands. To some its a luxury to people with disabilities voice controlled assistance mean more independence on you tube an entire community now swats tips on how smart homes can make their lives easier. Oh thats a. New technologies have made homes more usable for people with special needs but theyre not always easy or cheap to use and a catalina from the Technology Foundation berlin wants to see a new way of thinking with an aging society she sees great advantages in more accessible smart homes. Because it can we support older people who might not have sufficient financial means. Its also a benefit to society when people can stay independent in their homes and for longer and therefore dont burden social security. Thats why there has to be shared responsibility for the problem is i think. More inclusive of tea for seniors and disabled citizens thats a goal raul crowd hausen has been fighting for his whole life the activist an entrepreneur suffers from brittle bone disease and is wheelchair bound in twenty ten he develops well map an app that helps locate accessible by. On facilities he hopes disabled people will benefit more from the says in small home technology. I think its incredibly important that people with disabilities are included in the Development Process not excluded because that makes the products better for everyone. But it also means that people with disabilities need to bring in their ideas and be granted the opportunity to do so instead of just being put on display for p. R. Purposes instead their feedback should be taken seriously and implemented in the products. A growing number of firms are introducing inclusive apps this one for example can tell blind people what is in front of their phones camera. Hearing aid can adjust to specific acoustics. And this computer can be controlled with simple movements of the head but currently standard commercially Available Technology is still not inclusive enough. It still takes expert knowledge to set up a small. Line has already achieved a lot on his own but hes far from finished. Ok coming up with new ideas. For now however his apartment is the smartest in the building. Shift says more digital inclusion. Time now for the shift ranking the airports with the fastest wife i connections. In fifth place Philadelphia International airport passengers often have to endure endless layovers public wifi can help pass the time. The website speed test has now determined the best connected airports worldwide philadelphia offers nearly fifty megabytes a second and no wonder philly has always been a top tech player one of the worlds first general Purpose Computers was turned on here in one thousand nine hundred six. In forth then cooper International Airport many surveys rate the canadian city as one of the most livable worldwide high standards also apply to air travelers they can surf it fifty five megabytes per second. And third place. Perth airport the first direct flight between europe and australia will take off in march twenty eight team after the seventeen hour journey from london to perth passengers will be able to check their email at over sixty megabytes a second. Runner up denver International Airport the mile high city is in colorado the first us state to legalize marijuana in two thousand and fourteen the Internet Speed at this airport is also pretty high Seventy Eight megabytes a second. And our number one is Gold Coast Airport with fifty seven kilometers of beach this patch of eastern australia is considered a Surfers Paradise internet surfers can also expect nice conditions with a wife i connection of eighty megabytes a second and that was this weeks ranking now virtual farming most urban dwellers dont have their own plot of land but those who still want to eat homegrown vegetables can now become online gardeners via an interactive website. A drone regularly finds over this Market Garden to give the remote users a closer look at their vegetables spending im old and his mother live in berlin they tend to their sixteen square metres of land online what might look like a computer game is them actually maintaining a real garden that is why out of town. Its in saxony on hold. But no matter where i am i can still tend to my garden. And once the vegetables have been harvested i can pick them up in berlin and take them home. With holes in. Their garden as part of a larger facility one hectare in size the plant is about one hundred kilometers south of germanys capital its the brainchild of Martine Krishna he has an entire team now cultivating the vegetable garden originally he. Wanted a place as a weekend garden for his family. Kept having a problem and that we couldnt water our garden all the way from berlin so i started researching online for solutions and found these online farming games and then we set about making this virtual reality. So thats a new. Tenants can choose between over forty six different types of plants they choose where the seeds are to be sown which real life gardeners then take care of on the ground the cameras installed on masts in between the plants allow customers to view their vegetables progress any time they want. But theyre also ultimately responsible for their plants well being martin koshka thought up an interactive watering system. Pastoral has a little sensor with little feet and they measure things like the moisture in the soil then the data is sent via this antenna to the mast and from there a signal goes through the internet directly to the home computer. Thanks to an online database users know exactly when to water their plants all it takes is one click was probably loving care the harvest should be promising and the fold vegetable boxes are delivered to customers in berlin within a day. Shift says theyre just testing. And no short and sweet the shift snapshot. Languages are key to keeping musical and cultural traditions alive there are about six thousand five hundred languages around the world but nearly half of these are endangered mexico alone has sixty eight indigenous languages in addition to spanish. Artists authors and programmers are working to preserve this heritage. As for the future. The website can i offer is three learning apps with different local languages. Makes tico and the one in mexico around a million and a half people still speak now thats definitely worth studying for. Lack. Of a better shot. So thanks to simple visual cues operating the app is practically selfish clan atory the Initiative Also aims to expand to include other countries and that was a shift snapshot. When he learned more about life in the Digital World visit our Facebook Page d w digital. Was pretty fine digital news and trends along with interesting apps new tech gadgets and helpful tutorials and you can keep track of the latest shift episodes. Like us comment us tell us what you think right here on d w digital. And as always we end shift through the exit to our internet find of the week. This time a creative process. Its a long journey from the initial idea to the final product and many different people contribute. But the first step is convincing potential clients. You know not that easy. 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