Google Donating 100k Home Minis To Paralysed People
Smart assistant coupled with voice commands make for a truly powerful accessibility tool.To help showcase this assistive technology, Google is going to give 100k home mini speakers to those who are living with paralysis and caregivers.
Over the past few years, voice interaction has not only become commercially ubiquitous but also quite accurate at understanding.Its a natural fit for the home with development paralleling a similar proliferation of connected smart appliances.
Google wants to expose this technology to more people living with paralysis, this is why Google is partnering with the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation to donate 100k Home Minis.This effort coincides with the 29th anniversary of the Americans with disabilities Act(ADA) that prohibits discrimination based on disability and helps make public spaces more accessible.