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When a user of the Dot Watch gets a text message, the watch vibrates and small pins on its surface rise and fall to bring up 4 braille characters at a time. There hasn’t really been any genuine innovation as regards technology that makes life easier for the blind in the society in the past 15 years. Until now. A US company has come with something truly wonderful – a smartwatch for blind people. The folks at  Dot Inc.  have come up with a smartwatch that can translate emails, text and notifications from normal digital text to braille, making life much easier for blind people. Eric Ju Yoon Kim , CEO of Dot Inc., was in the University of Washington when he attended a meeting in which a blind student attended with a gigantic book in hand. The book was the Bible translated in braille. After this experience, Kim researched to see if there was any digital device that catered to the needs of blind people but to his surprise, such technology didn’t exist yet. Kim ...

The Federal Government would on January 1 next year reduce the pump price of the Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) to N85 per litre. The Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu broke the news to journalists in the Port Hacourt Refinery Company (PHRC), where he spent Christmas inspecting the plant. Asked when would the Federal Government release the new price template of the Petroleum Product Pricing Regulation Agency (PPPRA), he said that he approved the new price for the agency on Thursday. Pressed to reveal when the new price will become effective, Kachikwu, who is also the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said “like I said, we have done a modulation calculation and it is showing us below N87. I imagine that if PPPRA publishes it today, it will become effective immediately. But the 1st of January, that is when we are looking at.” According to him, the new price is below the current N87 per litre and it would now convince Ni...