I am a disabled/ full time wheelchair single mother of 2 teenage boys and there are so many things that I rely on to live independently and take care of myself and my boys. iPhones, smart watches light switches voice activated and so many other ways. I live a VERY happy and independent life I never thought I’d experience in my lifetime.
I myself, am not blind. Nor do I closely know anyone that is. However... I so very much LOVE listening to your positivity and passion and learning about the obstacles others face and how I can help in that and do better. You're an absolute angel
I agree with you Molly that technology will and does help us in so many ways. The only issue I see is a lot of technology is very expensive. Especially for many disabled individuals who are on very fixed incomes like Social Security.
These tech options sound so cool, and also cost-prohibitive. I hope access to the technology can happen for the huge percentage of disabled individuals living in poverty
Technology gets cheaper just like all things as it gets released and people start using it. The first ones will be expensive, but then they will come down in price. Also, because of the accessibility that they will create this sector of society won't be living in poverty anymore. They will have more opportunities.
@@RiverWoods111 I honestly don't think it's going to go that way for accessible equipment. manual wheelchairs right now are prohibitively expensive, and they've been around for ages
❤i agree! I think it is a horrible tragedy that they CRANK up the prices of specialty items for disabilities...when most disabled can't buy that...ex: why do not ALL wheelchair users have access to electric motorization in SOME form at a reasonable price? What is this 1830?
My mom, brother, and I all have RP and we have been looking forward to self-driving cars becoming an actual thing for years! It's now closer than ever to becoming reality and that is so exciting.
I have been watching the development of robotic dogs for years thinking that they would be perfect for the blind community as guide dogs. First, they can actually be GPS devices that can not only navigate what is around you but navigate you to whatever store you want to go to. They could be programmed to talk to the self-driving cars, so when your car pulls up your robotic dog connects to it and knows exactly where it is. The robotic dog could actually be tracking it as it is coming to pick you up.
your enthusiasm is so contagious, this video made me so excited for the future too! i’m also feeling inspired to look into how i could get involved with developing this technology. maybe a future career path!
I’ve been having really hard week, I am disabled, but not blind or visually impaired and I am happy crying over this video. Just knowing what this tech can do for ppl in my disabled community. And what it might mean for future technology for my own disabilities.
I complained to two bank branches that their "hood"" on either their debit/Credit Machines, and on the ATM are a accessibility issue because only the 5 have a "bump" and the hood covers the first 3 letters on the PIN pad. so if I need to see the those 2 numbers on the top row I have to bend down and look hard for it or else I will screw up my PIN.
We definitely need self driving cars in Australia! Technology here is starting to get better but we still have a long way to go. Please do more of these videos Molly, they really make my day! I also like your guide dog training videos, I know some of them are emotional but that's just part of life and I'm in the process of receiving a second guide dog and finding it extremely difficult because I'm still missing my previous guide dog. He retired on good terms but I'll never receive a new guide dog exactly like the previous one. every dog is different and it's going to take me a very long time to trust a new dog. I appreciate that some of the things you discussed are difficult to talk about on a public forum so please take your time owhen doing your videos. I also understand if you can't do videos every day. We all have our lives to live and I'm sorry that some of your life has been difficult for you. as for all of your good times, please keep them coming as often as possible, of course if you're comfortable that is. We all love to hear from you!
I’m excited for the Self-Driving Cars too. I was a little worried when you talked about you liking Robotic Seeing Eye Dogs, but felt better when you said that you said you would only use them for backup when your real seeing eye dog weren’t able to assist you.
Just wanted to let you know, but The Seeing Eye is a guide dog school based in New Jersey (I actually work for them). So to label all guide dogs as seeing eye dogs is actually not correct phrasing. All dogs from The Seeing Eye are guide dogs, but not all guide dogs are Seeing Eye dogs. I believe Elton and, all of Molly’s dogs, are from a Canadian based school called Mira Foundation. There’s actually about 90 schools world wide! Just thought I would let you know. Hope this helps. 😃
Hi Molly, my name is Gabby. I was the one that commented on your RUclips video couple weeks ago that said I listen to your book and it was really good. I watch your shorts and RUclips videos every day. I’m also visually impaired. I have the same condition, as you ve retinitis, pigmentosa, I still have some vision left. I know you are a motivational speaker. Do you know when your next event is going to be and where it’s going to be? 
I'm sighted, but this is the future I wanna live in!!!! Also, the fact that Molly will be the Bling Queen in the accessibility accessories makes me smile.
As a disabled person myself I’m really excited for all the advances that are going to improve people’s lives and independence! My concern is cost though, it’s all incredibly expensive, when disabled people are often far below the poverty line. Of course I hope as more people use it the cost lowers, but that isn’t really what I’ve seen happen on the market so far
Enjoyed this so much! Your "vision" for a day with all your new gadgets was so Molly! 😊 Thank you for showing another side of technology, it's fun and games for some people but life-changing for others. You have so much insight as a disabled person. Great video. ❤❤
OMG!!! Jordy glasses! I told my family 20+ years ago that I would get Jordy glasses. I have been fortunate enough to have 2 pairs of bioptic glasses. One pair for distance and one pair for reading and crafting. They have changed my world. But they do have limitations. I hope that AI and VR can be made accessible to anyone with visual impairment at a reasonable price.
Hey Molly!!! ❤ I started binge watching your videos from a year back like 2 weeks agoo and I’m all caught up now. Just wanted you to know that you have helped me so much with my mental health thru your videos ❤️ You seem so pure and just like so much fun! I myself am diagnosed with Depression and Anxiety since I was 17. Now as a 22 year old woman I recently just got diagnosed with ADHD and you have helped me so much to realise that its okay for me to ask for and use the help I need. ❤ Thank you ❤
I have seen a wearable screen reader by another company available for sale. It's called Or Cam Read. It fits to the temple piece of any pair of glasses and it will describe anything in its path, and reading text.
I love the enthusiasm when you talk about your future 😍 I wish this comes true and when we make these technologies we consider all the different needs for them 🙏🙏🙏
I love that you started this video explaining the cure aspect. I totally agree that this world isn’t made for people with disabilities and technology and changes can make all the difference. I agree so much that the hardest thing about being disabled is things not being accessible and lack of education.
Can't wait for self driving cars! Every time I have to book an appointment I have to do it around someone else's availability (and I have a lot of appointments!). I mean I'd love to go between provinces when I want for fun too but it's easier to book a fun outing around someone else's availability than it is appointments.
Yes love this! I get denied with my service dog all the time and even as a sighted woman I get very nervous with rideshare services. This is a great video! My SD is also a genetic health mess :p
I work in tech on top of having disabilities, and I try so hard to bring in more awareness especially for website owners. I recently sent an email to my audience about accessibility and the amount of people who were pissed I was asking them to do the basics - alt text, ARIA landmarks, headers - was insane to me.
I don't have a website or anything but I just learned from Hank Green where to change my Twitter settings so that asking for my ALT text description is the default when I post a picture
My 13 month old just suffered a seizure and brain swelling 3 weeks ago. Due to both of these his occipital lobe was badly damaged and now he has cortical vision impairment. I'm now trying to learn all I can to help him have access to high contrast colored items since most people with CVI can only see high contrast colors. I have watched your videos for years, but now I feel like I see them through a different lense now.
Can't wait to see you try Apple's Vision Pro and what you think about it. It was definitely cool to see you and your parents use the Waymo driverless car.More importantly to me hearing about the teamsters/local politics trying to stop the cars from continuing bc of union jobs being lost/unsafe causing accidents made me angry bc you had a great experience. The robot guide dog and cane all sound like great ideas for the future.
As a legally blind person with decent vison I'm so excited for the self driving car. The freedom will be amazing. I've never heard of the vr set it sounds cool.
Love ya Molly! my weekend has been so busy. I only just saw that you put this video up. Thanks for the shout out lady. Hope you’re having the best time. You know where you are lol. 🌟🦋
Beautiful molly you are a beautiful intelligent person you are perfect as you are you don't need a cure you are a cure love you're such an open minded free spirit i wish the best for you molly you make the world a better place thank you sweetheart molly
currently writing a research paper on unemployment in the disability community (specifically within invisible disabilities since I have one)… will definitely be including some of this info in it👀👀
Such a good point! I often wonder about the 'point' of a lot of smart technology/smart homes. But ..exactly! For some people have the potential to make a Huge difference.
One thing I wish was more consistent across the US is bioptic driving. I have Stargardt Disease and not quite legally blind. Thankfully I've been pretty stable the last 3 years. Found out from my Low Vision Specialist back in June that only if I lived about 25 miles away into the next state, I'd be legally allowed to drive with a bioptic which would be totally game changing. He let me walk around the neighborhood with a bioptic, too. The amount of things I could see with it, I almost cried.
I am visually impaired and I work with first responders and technology really does help me, especially when I have to communicate with the firefighters and I rely on technology when I read something and I rely on it for other things as well my Apple Watch my iPhone, my iPad all of those things I have to use Especially when I am working with the first responders
A camera on your hat or on a necklace with AI and a way to give you high resolution information of what that camera can see, perhaps via Open Water headset, or I heard on the back of the tongue are sensitive areas that could provide for certain resolution, so then you can see in that way. I also think audio information can translate the visual world, so you could hear a kind of tone that translates highlights of what the camera can see in a sort of clicks, whistles, and pulses but in a much more pleasant way, perhaps integrated with any music, to kind of modulate that music, in a way that you can hear where walls are, where the chair is, where the stairs are, where other people are, where whatever you need is, using AI too. I am in tech and I think I could get the right design house and tech companies to do this, if only I had the budget, if I could decide what major tech companies should do as a priority to help millions of blind people. The audio or sensitive information resolution could also be so to translate for example how beautiful someone's face is into a beautiful sound/music that makes you kind of understand who they are, also identifies every person differently. You could instantly hear if it's a man/woman, what age, about their hair, skin color, about their clothes, about what they are doing or where they are walking, you could identify if all as a sound wave + something you can sense with as much resolution can be possible.
Technology is great, as long as it's not used as a cope-out for creating inaccessible environments, and as long as we still keep a wide variety of accomodations. It wouldn't be cool if your only way to navigate the world depends on one corporation that can change the terms and conditions at any moment.
For some reeason, Talk Back cannot read RUclips comments on my phone. Forgive me if this has been brought up already but my concern about self driving cars is how low vision people are supposed to find a ride share on a crowded street or manage difficulties if there is an issue dropping off at the right place etc.
I think the future could have a VR-like headset that is more like a headband without goggles, maybe like a hairclip that you can connect to your ears, or to earbuds, or other accesories likes that, maybe even rings that could help give you information about your surroundings!
I was kinda disappointed by the Apple Vision Pro as someone with low vision. I couldn’t really get voiceover and zoom to work well, but there were a lot of things that once this gets developed more it will be so great! I think I need to go back when someone who knows more about accessibility is there.
Love hearing you and Ross speak out about being denied access by rideshare drivers - but so sorry that this has been enough of an issue that it's become a universal service dog user experience. I feel like y'all could start a great letter-writing/petition campaign to both main companies. Also very interesting to hear the technology you're excited for!
12:01 that’s were my brain went to. If the tech works for vr headsets in time the tech could get smaller…. Imagine wearing a earbud size device with a camera and all their interpretation tech inside.
I have too much anxiety for self driving cars I'm not blind though but I can't imagine the anxiety of not being able to see. There's been a lot of malfunctioning self driving cars. Tech is only as good as the maker of it. So we have to consider that we have to have really strong experts in these areas to make it valuable and affordable. Granted the tech that has came out I'm grateful for bc my son is also disabled.
I am incredibly excited to see where Brain-Computer Interface Technology will go in the future. I have been a respite worker for a young girl living with Rhett Syndrome and we have been part of research for this technology. it’s been absolutely incredible to see the ways this technology can provide independence for those who are unable to use their hands, legs, and/or verbal communication. You can use your brain to drive power wheelchairs, play video games, create art, etc. This technology is only in its beginning stages and has already provided incredible opportunities for individuals with disability and it is beautiful to see where technology is going.
The exciting thing about that future "fantasy" of high tech blindness is that all of those things exist! They just need to be perfected and honed to the specific needs of the user. As an older viewer, I also think about how these future developments can help the elderly who often become isolated when they can't drive anymore.
I'm an engineer and I've been watching your videos for years! I think quite often about how to make blind people's lives easier and I have a few small ideas. I would love to do something like that for a living; making people's lives easier and having something I worked on used by people
I never thought about my sight loss being cured by tech like this but I think you are right! I love that I can shop for my groceries for my family online since I can’t drive. I just want a way to get around independently like a self driving car or something. I know it’s being worked on! It’s much easier to figure that out than to restore my eyesight.
Society needs to care enough to put that technology in place, and make it affordable. The first barrier is funding, and funding is largely at the discretion of government. Vote, vote, vote! The other barrier is getting the message out to tech companies and research institutes that these things matter even when they’re not the most profitable areas. Molly, you are one of the voices putting that out there. ❤
Theres this company called Lumen who makes “glasses” that use the technology from self driving cars to help the blind community navigate crowds. It looks similar to a vr headset and hopefully will be easier to access for many than a guide dog.
hello there Molly I've been enjoying your content for many years now. would it be possible for you to do a video on the new Sony HX99 retinal projection camera kit. Sony has a no questions asked 14-day return policy that is sadly only available in mainland US. The camera kit has a built-in low power laser that projects the image directly onto the optic nerve bypassing the typical limitations of a disabled person's eye. stay happy healthy and cheers from the Philippines!
I'm not blind myself. But I am a person who stutters. Obviously, I can't benefit from technology nearly as much as the blind and a few other communities can (though there are a few apps and gizmos I could potentially look into one day - and I'm all for that too.) I can however absolutely relate to the 'cure culture" frustration here too. I grew up in a world where the goal was always seemingly to 'fix' me... to make me just like other people. And even as a child, I'm not sure I ever fully wanted that exactly. I mean... I did because I was taught to want that, yeah. But on a real, human level, not exactly. I wanted a world where different was acceptable... where different was welcome, no matter the difference. And I wanted a world that would work with us... met us partway instead of forcing us to struggle, working three times as hard to get half as far, and then leaving us behind when we, quite naturally, couldn't meet the impossible demand.
I would have loved you to sit in the driver's seat of the self driving vehicle. Having it park and you getting out with your cane would have been the best!
This sounds like a cool idea 💡 😮 I can’t wait for tech in the future 😊 don’t think of it like a dystopia ☺️ ai is scary but we have no control of the future.
Molly - do you know the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act Standards for Accessible Design) states that all electronics and information technology (such as websites) must be accessible to people with disabilities. Beginning January 2018 web accessibility went into effect. While organizations cannot be 100% compliant, there are steps they are all taking to ensure sites are accessible to those with disabilities
You should check out Sam from The Blind Life, he did a wonderful video of the vision pro from apple, even though he has some usable vision, he was using it with voice over and basickly talking about how someone with out useable vision could use it.
Oh! But hear me out! a robotic guide dog with all the benefits for the blind AND are medical alert robotic WITH emergency treatment abilities. Now that would be great! I would love one that you could ride as well! Since my disabilities are in my legs and arms and everything.
I believe most technology for accessibility is already possible, they are just not been installed because the designers doesn’t care, or they intentionally ignore. Like how lobbyists constantly trying to undermine the public transit plannings in North America, the biggest and most expensive accessibility system that could happen to a city, just because it makes the oil and car industries more money.
I would think it could be hard, being blind, to trust ride-share drivers when they say you've arrived at your destination, to know that is true, unless you are also using something such as gps on your phone to confirm.
I use GPS on my phone all the time and it works great! I can even use it on the buses now. Are use Google Maps to check out the bus stops and then I use a GPS app to actually mark a bus stop so that I know I'm nearer to the one I need to stop at. I absolutely love my new phone with my new GPS app!
i have presure back my eye i cannot get an op even if the dr came up tomorrow asked if i wanted to go i'd say no cause my deafness and blindness my personality make me me plus side idsabilty depending on what you have you maybe able too drop off some of the bs in life example my deafness can help me not hear bs going around lol but on other sides i miss phone calls
I know I'm late, but as a partially deaf person who gets constantly asked why I don't have hearing aids, I understand the help technology can provivde but i hope people don't see it as a fix all, or an excuse to not be fully accessible.
I couldn't feel completely comfortable in a digital environment, as it can be very easily manipulated. Cyber security and law is far far behind the curve
When did you get Elton John the 2nd..? RUclips has been having fun unsubscribing me... He's Handsome ❤ I struggled in school... I have strabismus and auditory processing issues. I was always thinking in highschool how cool would it be to turn my PC into a pad, writing stuff but converting everything into text and talk into text. I was constantly having people write notes in class and either I or my mom would convert it into print. So yeah! Now I have FND or Functional Neurological Disorder (had stroke like episode in Aug 2023) it has affected my left side. Can't drive anymore.
I will say Uber and Lyft need to fix that. I understand there are people who are allergic to dogs but they should have an option in the app to wear the driver can say they allow dogs in their car or not. Also It’s not legal to for a business to turn away someone who has a service dog. If you are driving for Uber or Lyft you are working for that company therefore your car is a company car so you legally can’t turn away or refuse someone who has a service dog. And yes you can report these people.
I'm not sure I would want to own a self driving car. The problem with self driving cars is that they're run by computer and computers have a tendency to crash, so how would I pull over the car to deal with the computer problem? Worse, what if the computer problem was so bad that I had a runaway car on my hands that would not stop no matter what I did?
I am a disabled/ full time wheelchair single mother of 2 teenage boys and there are so many things that I rely on to live independently and take care of myself and my boys. iPhones, smart watches light switches voice activated and so many other ways. I live a VERY happy and independent life I never thought I’d experience in my lifetime.
I myself, am not blind. Nor do I closely know anyone that is. However... I so very much LOVE listening to your positivity and passion and learning about the obstacles others face and how I can help in that and do better. You're an absolute angel
I agree with you Molly that technology will and does help us in so many ways. The only issue I see is a lot of technology is very expensive. Especially for many disabled individuals who are on very fixed incomes like Social Security.
These tech options sound so cool, and also cost-prohibitive. I hope access to the technology can happen for the huge percentage of disabled individuals living in poverty
Technology gets cheaper just like all things as it gets released and people start using it. The first ones will be expensive, but then they will come down in price. Also, because of the accessibility that they will create this sector of society won't be living in poverty anymore. They will have more opportunities.
@@RiverWoods111which I hope happens here as well, but thus far hasn’t worked out in the market for accessibility equipment
@@RiverWoods111 I honestly don't think it's going to go that way for accessible equipment. manual wheelchairs right now are prohibitively expensive, and they've been around for ages
❤i agree! I think it is a horrible tragedy that they CRANK up the prices of specialty items for disabilities...when most disabled can't buy that...ex: why do not ALL wheelchair users have access to electric motorization in SOME form at a reasonable price? What is this 1830?
My mom, brother, and I all have RP and we have been looking forward to self-driving cars becoming an actual thing for years! It's now closer than ever to becoming reality and that is so exciting.
Please NEVER stop making Molly Rambles
I have been watching the development of robotic dogs for years thinking that they would be perfect for the blind community as guide dogs. First, they can actually be GPS devices that can not only navigate what is around you but navigate you to whatever store you want to go to. They could be programmed to talk to the self-driving cars, so when your car pulls up your robotic dog connects to it and knows exactly where it is. The robotic dog could actually be tracking it as it is coming to pick you up.
your enthusiasm is so contagious, this video made me so excited for the future too! i’m also feeling inspired to look into how i could get involved with developing this technology. maybe a future career path!
Good video. Thanks. I am disabled. I'm blind. I worry because there are so many barriers. I hope that in the years to come things can get better.
I’ve been having really hard week, I am disabled, but not blind or visually impaired and I am happy crying over this video. Just knowing what this tech can do for ppl in my disabled community. And what it might mean for future technology for my own disabilities.
I complained to two bank branches that their "hood"" on either their debit/Credit Machines, and on the ATM are a accessibility issue because only the 5 have a "bump" and the hood covers the first 3 letters on the PIN pad. so if I need to see the those 2 numbers on the top row I have to bend down and look hard for it or else I will screw up my PIN.
We definitely need self driving cars in Australia! Technology here is starting to get better but we still have a long way to go. Please do more of these videos Molly, they really make my day! I also like your guide dog training videos, I know some of them are emotional but that's just part of life and I'm in the process of receiving a second guide dog and finding it extremely difficult because I'm still missing my previous guide dog. He retired on good terms but I'll never receive a new guide dog exactly like the previous one. every dog is different and it's going to take me a very long time to trust a new dog. I appreciate that some of the things you discussed are difficult to talk about on a public forum so please take your time owhen doing your videos. I also understand if you can't do videos every day. We all have our lives to live and I'm sorry that some of your life has been difficult for you. as for all of your good times, please keep them coming as often as possible, of course if you're comfortable that is. We all love to hear from you!
I’m excited for the Self-Driving Cars too. I was a little worried when you talked about you liking Robotic Seeing Eye Dogs, but felt better when you said that you said you would only use them for backup when your real seeing eye dog weren’t able to assist you.
Just wanted to let you know, but The Seeing Eye is a guide dog school based in New Jersey (I actually work for them). So to label all guide dogs as seeing eye dogs is actually not correct phrasing. All dogs from The Seeing Eye are guide dogs, but not all guide dogs are Seeing Eye dogs. I believe Elton and, all of Molly’s dogs, are from a Canadian based school called Mira Foundation. There’s actually about 90 schools world wide! Just thought I would let you know. Hope this helps. 😃
Hi Molly, my name is Gabby. I was the one that commented on your RUclips video couple weeks ago that said I listen to your book and it was really good. I watch your shorts and RUclips videos every day. I’m also visually impaired. I have the same condition, as you ve retinitis, pigmentosa, I still have some vision left. I know you are a motivational speaker. Do you know when your next event is going to be and where it’s going to be? 
Exciting times ahead for all of us, love you, Molly!
I'm sighted, but this is the future I wanna live in!!!!
Also, the fact that Molly will be the Bling Queen in the accessibility accessories makes me smile.
As a disabled person myself I’m really excited for all the advances that are going to improve people’s lives and independence! My concern is cost though, it’s all incredibly expensive, when disabled people are often far below the poverty line. Of course I hope as more people use it the cost lowers, but that isn’t really what I’ve seen happen on the market so far
Enjoyed this so much! Your "vision" for a day with all your new gadgets was so Molly! 😊 Thank you for showing another side of technology, it's fun and games for some people but life-changing for others. You have so much insight as a disabled person. Great video. ❤❤
Lol... this video is 20 mins and 20 seconds long. 20:20 👀 👀
love you Molly!
OMG!!! Jordy glasses! I told my family 20+ years ago that I would get Jordy glasses. I have been fortunate enough to have 2 pairs of bioptic glasses. One pair for distance and one pair for reading and crafting. They have changed my world. But they do have limitations. I hope that AI and VR can be made accessible to anyone with visual impairment at a reasonable price.
Hey Molly!!! ❤ I started binge watching your videos from a year back like 2 weeks agoo and I’m all caught up now. Just wanted you to know that you have helped me so much with my mental health thru your videos ❤️ You seem so pure and just like so much fun! I myself am diagnosed with Depression and Anxiety since I was 17. Now as a 22 year old woman I recently just got diagnosed with ADHD and you have helped me so much to realise that its okay for me to ask for and use the help I need. ❤
Thank you ❤
I have seen a wearable screen reader by another company available for sale. It's called Or Cam Read. It fits to the temple piece of any pair of glasses and it will describe anything in its path, and reading text.
This was such an encoraging video!!!❤❤❤ so great to be reminded of all the beautiful things technology can do!
I love the enthusiasm when you talk about your future 😍 I wish this comes true and when we make these technologies we consider all the different needs for them 🙏🙏🙏
I love that you started this video explaining the cure aspect. I totally agree that this world isn’t made for people with disabilities and technology and changes can make all the difference. I agree so much that the hardest thing about being disabled is things not being accessible and lack of education.
Love lots of people don’t understand technology or want to use it. It does open up a whole new world of opportunities for everyone.
Can't wait for self driving cars! Every time I have to book an appointment I have to do it around someone else's availability (and I have a lot of appointments!). I mean I'd love to go between provinces when I want for fun too but it's easier to book a fun outing around someone else's availability than it is appointments.
These tech options are so INCREDIBLE definitely help anyone with disabilities ❤😊❤❤😊
Yes love this! I get denied with my service dog all the time and even as a sighted woman I get very nervous with rideshare services. This is a great video! My SD is also a genetic health mess :p
I work in tech on top of having disabilities, and I try so hard to bring in more awareness especially for website owners. I recently sent an email to my audience about accessibility and the amount of people who were pissed I was asking them to do the basics - alt text, ARIA landmarks, headers - was insane to me.
I don't have a website or anything but I just learned from Hank Green where to change my Twitter settings so that asking for my ALT text description is the default when I post a picture
My 13 month old just suffered a seizure and brain swelling 3 weeks ago. Due to both of these his occipital lobe was badly damaged and now he has cortical vision impairment. I'm now trying to learn all I can to help him have access to high contrast colored items since most people with CVI can only see high contrast colors. I have watched your videos for years, but now I feel like I see them through a different lense now.
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Can't wait to see you try Apple's Vision Pro and what you think about it.
It was definitely cool to see you and your parents use the Waymo driverless car.More importantly to me hearing about the teamsters/local politics trying to stop the cars from continuing bc of union jobs being lost/unsafe causing accidents made me angry bc you had a great experience.
The robot guide dog and cane all sound like great ideas for the future.
As a legally blind person with decent vison I'm so excited for the self driving car. The freedom will be amazing. I've never heard of the vr set it sounds cool.
Love ya Molly! my weekend has been so busy. I only just saw that you put this video up. Thanks for the shout out lady. Hope you’re having the best time. You know where you are lol. 🌟🦋
Beautiful molly you are a beautiful intelligent person you are perfect as you are you don't need a cure you are a cure love you're such an open minded free spirit i wish the best for you molly you make the world a better place thank you sweetheart molly
currently writing a research paper on unemployment in the disability community (specifically within invisible disabilities since I have one)… will definitely be including some of this info in it👀👀
Such a good point! I often wonder about the 'point' of a lot of smart technology/smart homes. But ..exactly! For some people have the potential to make a Huge difference.
One thing I wish was more consistent across the US is bioptic driving. I have Stargardt Disease and not quite legally blind. Thankfully I've been pretty stable the last 3 years. Found out from my Low Vision Specialist back in June that only if I lived about 25 miles away into the next state, I'd be legally allowed to drive with a bioptic which would be totally game changing. He let me walk around the neighborhood with a bioptic, too. The amount of things I could see with it, I almost cried.
I am visually impaired and I work with first responders and technology really does help me, especially when I have to communicate with the firefighters and I rely on technology when I read something and I rely on it for other things as well my Apple Watch my iPhone, my iPad all of those things I have to use Especially when I am working with the first responders
A camera on your hat or on a necklace with AI and a way to give you high resolution information of what that camera can see, perhaps via Open Water headset, or I heard on the back of the tongue are sensitive areas that could provide for certain resolution, so then you can see in that way. I also think audio information can translate the visual world, so you could hear a kind of tone that translates highlights of what the camera can see in a sort of clicks, whistles, and pulses but in a much more pleasant way, perhaps integrated with any music, to kind of modulate that music, in a way that you can hear where walls are, where the chair is, where the stairs are, where other people are, where whatever you need is, using AI too. I am in tech and I think I could get the right design house and tech companies to do this, if only I had the budget, if I could decide what major tech companies should do as a priority to help millions of blind people. The audio or sensitive information resolution could also be so to translate for example how beautiful someone's face is into a beautiful sound/music that makes you kind of understand who they are, also identifies every person differently. You could instantly hear if it's a man/woman, what age, about their hair, skin color, about their clothes, about what they are doing or where they are walking, you could identify if all as a sound wave + something you can sense with as much resolution can be possible.
Technology is great, as long as it's not used as a cope-out for creating inaccessible environments, and as long as we still keep a wide variety of accomodations. It wouldn't be cool if your only way to navigate the world depends on one corporation that can change the terms and conditions at any moment.
For some reeason, Talk Back cannot read RUclips comments on my phone. Forgive me if this has been brought up already but my concern about self driving cars is how low vision people are supposed to find a ride share on a crowded street or manage difficulties if there is an issue dropping off at the right place etc.
Your vision for the future is very inspiring!
I think the future could have a VR-like headset that is more like a headband without goggles, maybe like a hairclip that you can connect to your ears, or to earbuds, or other accesories likes that, maybe even rings that could help give you information about your surroundings!
I was kinda disappointed by the Apple Vision Pro as someone with low vision. I couldn’t really get voiceover and zoom to work well, but there were a lot of things that once this gets developed more it will be so great! I think I need to go back when someone who knows more about accessibility is there.
I LOVE technology and I would love to have a smart kitchen ❤❤❤
It is close. There are advances in the commercial kitchen equipment industry that will flow to the domestic market once proven.
Love hearing you and Ross speak out about being denied access by rideshare drivers - but so sorry that this has been enough of an issue that it's become a universal service dog user experience. I feel like y'all could start a great letter-writing/petition campaign to both main companies. Also very interesting to hear the technology you're excited for!
12:01 that’s were my brain went to. If the tech works for vr headsets in time the tech could get smaller…. Imagine wearing a earbud size device with a camera and all their interpretation tech inside.
I have too much anxiety for self driving cars I'm not blind though but I can't imagine the anxiety of not being able to see. There's been a lot of malfunctioning self driving cars. Tech is only as good as the maker of it. So we have to consider that we have to have really strong experts in these areas to make it valuable and affordable. Granted the tech that has came out I'm grateful for bc my son is also disabled.
I am incredibly excited to see where Brain-Computer Interface Technology will go in the future. I have been a respite worker for a young girl living with Rhett Syndrome and we have been part of research for this technology. it’s been absolutely incredible to see the ways this technology can provide independence for those who are unable to use their hands, legs, and/or verbal communication. You can use your brain to drive power wheelchairs, play video games, create art, etc. This technology is only in its beginning stages and has already provided incredible opportunities for individuals with disability and it is beautiful to see where technology is going.
The exciting thing about that future "fantasy" of high tech blindness is that all of those things exist! They just need to be perfected and honed to the specific needs of the user. As an older viewer, I also think about how these future developments can help the elderly who often become isolated when they can't drive anymore.
Could you do a video talking about Elton’s health issues? I dont think ive heard you talk about them ❤
I'm an engineer and I've been watching your videos for years! I think quite often about how to make blind people's lives easier and I have a few small ideas. I would love to do something like that for a living; making people's lives easier and having something I worked on used by people
Appreciate your comments. Many people do not perceive we all need the same things regardless of circumstances.
I never thought about my sight loss being cured by tech like this but I think you are right! I love that I can shop for my groceries for my family online since I can’t drive. I just want a way to get around independently like a self driving car or something. I know it’s being worked on! It’s much easier to figure that out than to restore my eyesight.
Society needs to care enough to put that technology in place, and make it affordable. The first barrier is funding, and funding is largely at the discretion of government. Vote, vote, vote! The other barrier is getting the message out to tech companies and research institutes that these things matter even when they’re not the most profitable areas. Molly, you are one of the voices putting that out there. ❤
Theres this company called Lumen who makes “glasses” that use the technology from self driving cars to help the blind community navigate crowds. It looks similar to a vr headset and hopefully will be easier to access for many than a guide dog.
thanks such videos help
I've been loving the recent tech content!
your makeup looks super pretty 😍 today!
I just want to say that you are 100% right
I am physically disabled and I love your channel.
hello there Molly I've been enjoying your content for many years now.
would it be possible for you to do a video on the new Sony HX99 retinal projection camera kit. Sony has a no questions asked 14-day return policy that is sadly only available in mainland US.
The camera kit has a built-in low power laser that projects the image directly onto the optic nerve bypassing the typical limitations of a disabled person's eye.
stay happy healthy and cheers from the Philippines!
I love your necklace! thanks for the video
The robotic guide dog sounds great.
It be really cool if Molly did a collaboration video with huge if true about technology that aid in the quality of life of blind people 😃
I'm not blind myself. But I am a person who stutters. Obviously, I can't benefit from technology nearly as much as the blind and a few other communities can (though there are a few apps and gizmos I could potentially look into one day - and I'm all for that too.) I can however absolutely relate to the 'cure culture" frustration here too. I grew up in a world where the goal was always seemingly to 'fix' me... to make me just like other people. And even as a child, I'm not sure I ever fully wanted that exactly. I mean... I did because I was taught to want that, yeah. But on a real, human level, not exactly. I wanted a world where different was acceptable... where different was welcome, no matter the difference. And I wanted a world that would work with us... met us partway instead of forcing us to struggle, working three times as hard to get half as far, and then leaving us behind when we, quite naturally, couldn't meet the impossible demand.
Ok, did you do a video where you show us your round pendant that you are wearing in this video? I love !❤
I would have loved you to sit in the driver's seat of the self driving vehicle. Having it park and you getting out with your cane would have been the best!
i feel like the length of this video is also a pun... its 20:20 and Molly even made a "vision" pun at the beginning haha
This sounds like a cool idea 💡 😮 I can’t wait for tech in the future 😊 don’t think of it like a dystopia ☺️ ai is scary but we have no control of the future.
Molly - do you know the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act Standards for Accessible Design) states that all electronics and information technology (such as websites) must be accessible to people with disabilities. Beginning January 2018 web accessibility went into effect. While organizations cannot be 100% compliant, there are steps they are all taking to ensure sites are accessible to those with disabilities
There is a website content accessibility guideline!
Today I wanna talk about that gorgeous necklace coin pendant that you are wearing and where I can buy one like it!!!❤❤❤
A VR headset that starts shaking when you're about to walk into something
You should check out Sam from The Blind Life, he did a wonderful video of the vision pro from apple, even though he has some usable vision, he was using it with voice over and basickly talking about how someone with out useable vision could use it.
05:28 The way I thought she said "like with our pee" for a second 😂
You are so beautiful Molly like a queen and ur outfit is absolutely fabulous ❤😊❤❤😊❤
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You got this
You should start a podcast 🩷
Increasing public transit would benefit far more people with less environmental impact than self driving cars.
Oh! But hear me out! a robotic guide dog with all the benefits for the blind AND are medical alert robotic WITH emergency treatment abilities. Now that would be great! I would love one that you could ride as well! Since my disabilities are in my legs and arms and everything.
Oh Molly, you are so punny😂
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I believe most technology for accessibility is already possible, they are just not been installed because the designers doesn’t care, or they intentionally ignore. Like how lobbyists constantly trying to undermine the public transit plannings in North America, the biggest and most expensive accessibility system that could happen to a city, just because it makes the oil and car industries more money.
I would think it could be hard, being blind, to trust ride-share drivers when they say you've arrived at your destination, to know that is true, unless you are also using something such as gps on your phone to confirm.
I use GPS on my phone all the time and it works great! I can even use it on the buses now. Are use Google Maps to check out the bus stops and then I use a GPS app to actually mark a bus stop so that I know I'm nearer to the one I need to stop at. I absolutely love my new phone with my new GPS app!
This is the kind of stuff that doesn't get talked about in discussions about technology.
i have presure back my eye i cannot get an op even if the dr came up tomorrow asked if i wanted to go i'd say no cause my deafness and blindness my personality make me me plus side idsabilty depending on what you have you maybe able too drop off some of the bs in life example my deafness can help me not hear bs going around lol but on other sides i miss phone calls
I know I'm late, but as a partially deaf person who gets constantly asked why I don't have hearing aids, I understand the help technology can provivde but i hope people don't see it as a fix all, or an excuse to not be fully accessible.
Robot guide-dog would be tremendous for people allergic to dogs.
I couldn't feel completely comfortable in a digital environment, as it can be very easily manipulated. Cyber security and law is far far behind the curve
When did you get Elton John the 2nd..? RUclips has been having fun unsubscribing me... He's Handsome ❤ I struggled in school... I have strabismus and auditory processing issues. I was always thinking in highschool how cool would it be to turn my PC into a pad, writing stuff but converting everything into text and talk into text. I was constantly having people write notes in class and either I or my mom would convert it into print. So yeah! Now I have FND or Functional Neurological Disorder (had stroke like episode in Aug 2023) it has affected my left side. Can't drive anymore.
About 2 years ago
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I'm a sighted person and I much prefer Waymo to Uber/Lyft.
Matthew and Paul already tested the Apple headset. Paul could draw wearing it. IFYKUK
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I know about the times Elton had an emergency, What do you mean he has health issues?? Please fill us in! I love Elton!
I will say Uber and Lyft need to fix that. I understand there are people who are allergic to dogs but they should have an option in the app to wear the driver can say they allow dogs in their car or not. Also It’s not legal to for a business to turn away someone who has a service dog. If you are driving for Uber or Lyft you are working for that company therefore your car is a company car so you legally can’t turn away or refuse someone who has a service dog. And yes you can report these people.
Molly: Waymo is set to start reg service in LA tomorrow. Good luck
I'm not sure I would want to own a self driving car. The problem with self driving cars is that they're run by computer and computers have a tendency to crash, so how would I pull over the car to deal with the computer problem? Worse, what if the computer problem was so bad that I had a runaway car on my hands that would not stop no matter what I did?
Freeing for a lot of disabled people in general. Not just blind people.