The latest disability tech with object recognition, sign to text translation and snow feet. Over the past few years, some of the most fascinating technologies weve featured on the show have been the ones that help people with disabilities. As the worlds first bionic games proved, the possibilities now emerging offer so much potential, whether it be in mobility, sight or hearing, weve seen how Life Changing Technology is tantalisingly close. But how long before it really starts to impact peoples lives for real . This weekend sees the International Day of people with disabilities and thats a great chance for us to devote a whole programme to the latest tech developments in the area. We start in rochester in upstate new york, which has the highest number of deaf or hard of hearing people per capita in the us. The unique combination of this community and the Technical Institute in the area is really starting to drive innovation. Paul carter went to investigate. Rochester institute of techn
The government, probably for understandable reasons, is focused on brexit and seems to lack the bandwidth to be able to translate the rhetoric of promoting social justice into reality. The government sets out plans to make it easierfor children in england to get access to Mental Health services. Schools and colleges will be encouraged to appoint staff wholl work with the nhs to provide specialist support. Its 50 years since the worlds First Successful heart transplant the surgery revolutionised the way Heart Disease is treated. Now on bbc news, its time for click. This week. The latest disability tech with object recognition, sign to text translation and snow feet. Over the past few years, some of the most fascinating technologies weve featured on the show have been the ones that help people with disabilities. As the worlds first bionic games proved, the possibilities now emerging offer so much potential, whether it be in mobility, sight or hearing, weve seen how Life Changing Technolo
And snow feet. Over the past few years, some of the most fascinating technologies weve featured on the show have been the ones that help people with disabilities. As the worlds first bionic games proved, the possibilities now emerging offer so much potential, whether it be in mobility, sight or hearing, weve seen how Life Changing Technology is now tantalisingly close. But how long before it really starts to impact peoples lives for real . This weekend sees the International Day of people with disabilities and thats a great chance for us to devote a whole programme to the latest tech developments in the area. We start in rochester in upstate new york, which has the highest number of deaf or hard of hearing people per capita in the us. The unique combination of this community and the Technical Institute in the area is really starting to drive innovation. Paul carter went to investigate. Rochester institute of technology and its college, national Technical Institute for the deaf, are now
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Takes five seconds to produce a plastic bag it takes five hundred years to decompose and veyron metal and the economic dilemma of huge proportions. When german retailers started charging for plastic bags consumption of them fell dramatically by two billion bags a year not bad but imagine of them still end up in recycling bins here and a huge number never get recycled at all despite germany being a Global Recycling champion. Decided to take an up close and personal look at the problem. My flatmates are the best at recycling most of our waste ends up in the regular trash. Bin everyone says we really should be recycling because waste is full of valuable ball materials. Managing paper glass organic waste only what is left should go in the trash. Here in germany theres a separate bin for every kind of waste. Is something useful done with all of this. Germans produce an average of over six hundred kilos of waste per year. The countrys reputation for recycling is tops but take packaging only