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If you’ve ever wondered how blind people play tabletop and RPG games, here’s your answer. Braille dice. A lack of sight doesn’t have to keep you from enjoying a good game of D & D. These cool dice were created by Jack Berberette as part of his Dots RPG project, which is all about making tabletop gaming more inclusive to the blind.

You can find the 3-D printing shapefiles for free HERE, or you can purchase finished dice several colors and sides from his Shapeways shop. Dice collectors will want to get their hands on these too. They come in all of the dice varieties that you need to play your games: D6, D10, D20 and everything in-between.

They look pretty sci-fi to me. One thing’s for sure, you won’t be able to fool your blind friends anymore by telling them they rolled a different number. You’re terrible for doing that by the way. Now they are going to wonder why their game is getting so much better, and it was all your fault. Jack really did a good job on these. They are very easy for blind gamers to use, and with a bit of learning the rest of us can figure it out too.

[via Boing Boing via Geekologie]

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We live in a world where media consumption is extremely common due to ever more affordable data plans as well as much improved infrastructure worldwide. Most of us use our smartphones in order to capture a particular happening or interesting event, be it through photo or video mediums. Why not up the ante with a better way of doing things with the OSBOT Tail? The OSBOT Tail is the first auto-director AI camera in the world, and it has just been announced on Kickstarter as a crowdfunding project that has already garnered plenty of attention along the way.

The OSBOT Tail is the brainchild of the folks over at Remo Technology, where it will offer AI features that track and record you without the need for a camera man. This will happen regardless of what kind of physical activity you are involved in, be it dancing a number to your favorite tunes, performing stunts on the skateboard at the local park or even while vlogging. With the OSBOT Tail, you will use gestures in order to activate its AI filming modes. Alternatively, one can always settle for the OBSBOT Studio app in order to create a mix of filming effects, and these will include filming your upper body, automatically panning and tilting the video, while automatically zooming in and out for effect, among others.

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It might sound rather expensive at first glance, but most people will be pleasantly surprised to hear that the OSBOT Tail is available for pre-order on Kickstarter for just $469 apiece. Do take note that this is the early bird price, of course. Make sure your home movies will never be the same again with the addition of the OSBOT Tail to your filmmaking arsenal.

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We live in a world where media consumption is extremely common due to ever more affordable data plans as well as much improved infrastructure worldwide. Most of us use our smartphones in order to capture a particular happening or interesting event, be it through photo or video mediums. Why not up the ante with a better way of doing things with the OSBOT Tail? The OSBOT Tail is the first auto-director AI camera in the world, and it has just been announced on Kickstarter as a crowdfunding project that has already garnered plenty of attention along the way.

The OSBOT Tail is the brainchild of the folks over at Remo Technology, where it will offer AI features that track and record you without the need for a camera man. This will happen regardless of what kind of physical activity you are involved in, be it dancing a number to your favorite tunes, performing stunts on the skateboard at the local park or even while vlogging. With the OSBOT Tail, you will use gestures in order to activate its AI filming modes. Alternatively, one can always settle for the OBSBOT Studio app in order to create a mix of filming effects, and these will include filming your upper body, automatically panning and tilting the video, while automatically zooming in and out for effect, among others.

The OSBOT Tail is powered by a HiSilicon Hi3559A chip that enables image processing and supports 3D Lookup Table (3DLUT) for true-to-color footage, snapping 12MP photos as well as capturing 4K video without missing a beat. There is a 3.5x optical zoom lens that works alongside 10 optical lenses (4 Hoya aspherical lenses), while the three-axis, 360-degree gimbal delivers proprietary ‘ExtraSmooth’ technology that provides jitter-free camera movements.

It might sound rather expensive at first glance, but most people will be pleasantly surprised to hear that the OSBOT Tail is available for pre-order on Kickstarter for just $469 apiece. Do take note that this is the early bird price, of course. Make sure your home movies will never be the same again with the addition of the OSBOT Tail to your filmmaking arsenal.

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[ OSBOT Tail auto-director AI camera copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]