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App To Help Blind Text

The Wowster on an app to help blind people text An app has been created to help blind people text using touchscreen devices. The app developed at Georgia Tech will be available for iPhone and android devices. Using a braille writing system, it is claimed that the app makes it up to six times faster for people without sight to text. Currently the only ...

Beware Movie Critics

Put not your faith in movie critics, warns The Wowster I am beginning to think that going on your instinct rather that paying any attention to movie critics (including me) is the best way to find an enjoyable film. After seeing a ...

Carnage: My Recurring Nightmare

The Wowster goes to the movies and experiences a recurring nighmare. Off to see Carnage for the second time...and experience a recurring nightmare that could destroy my career as your movie critic. But first the movie. It's a brilliant evocation of how ...

End As A Man

End as a man. The Wowster pays tribute to the real godfather of method acting Ben Gazzara, who died recently at 81, and not Brando was the real godfather of method acting. He had the credentials, not least his break out role ...

Chewed Off

Has Dawn French's severe weight loss left her chewed off Dawn French is a bit chewed off. As she puts it, she misses held fat self. Fior instance she can't go swimming in cold water. She's lost 7 stone 7lb and doesn't ...

Don’t Look Down

The day The Wowster had to tell himself, don't look down...but failed. I suffer from a fear of heights. Have done so since I was a small child and fell off a window ledge breaking both my legs. However, my vertigo, my ...