Also totally forgot to talk about this yesterday.
As a part of global accessibility awareness day, we put out a new update for the Be My Eyes app for Windows that is completely rebuild from the ground up. Along with giving us a better base to build amazing new features for desktop in the near future, this new app also fixes a lot of the accessibility issues that people have reported over the last 1.5 or so years.
In addition Chat History is now also available on Desktop, so you can start a conversation from mobile and continue it on desktop (and vice versa).

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#blind #bme #tech
#disability #assistivetech

Be My Eyes and Innosearch Join Forces to Bring Seamless, AI-Powered eCommerce to Blind and Low Vision Users

‍Be My Eyes announced today – on Global Accessibility Awareness Day – a strategic alliance with Innosearch.ai, an AI-powered eCommerce portal. The alliance will provide super-accessible online shopping to the users of the Be My Eyes app,, without the clutter and noise present of many other websites.

Be My Eyes users will benefit from an exclusive 2% cashback credit into their Innosearch account for use against future purchases made through the Be My Eyes app. The service is currently available in the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia, with more regions to follow.

The alliance represents a significant step and new direction for Be My Eyes, as it lays the foundations of the Be My Eyes app and the underlying technology platform becoming the de-facto access-tech of choice for people who are blind or have low vision, wherever they are – at home, at work or at play.

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Be My Eyes to Provide In-App Accessible Shopping for Blind and Low Vision Users with InnoSearch AI - Be My Eyes

Be My Eyes and Innosearch Team Up to Bring Seamless, AI-Powered eCommerce to Blind and Low Vision Users

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Big news for #GAAD2025! 🎉 Accessible online shopping is now built into the Be My Eyes app, thanks to our collab with InnoSearch AI.

Shop products, book travel, earn 2% cash back.

No fees, no barriers. Just tap + shop! 🛒

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Be My Eyes to Provide In-App Accessible Shopping for Blind and Low Vision Users with InnoSearch AI - Be My Eyes

Be My Eyes and Innosearch Team Up to Bring Seamless, AI-Powered eCommerce to Blind and Low Vision Users

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Here's a picture taken with the Meta Smart Glasses, then described with #AI via #BeMyEyes, which has been an invaluable helping-hand, enabling me to know what randomly labeled pictures in my collection are, without having to ask my wife or children.
With image names such as 'photo-296_singular_display_fullPicture.jpg' it's a fun time trying to decipher such randomness sometimes.
This was taken at a podcast recording of Tim Harford's 'Cautionary Tales' and I got to take Jake along with me.

I get the AI hate I really do, but there are just times in life where hate is misplaced. for me, something that is an enabler is such a time.
No, it's not perfect, we're not there yet, but for my usecase it helps more than it hinders.
Your milage will of course, vary.

a thunderstorm seems to.be approaching. I am having the time of my life using the #VirtualVolunteer beta feature of #BeMyEyes to find out where the lightning strikes are happening using the #Carrot app. The screenshot of the weather radar app displays a map with several locations and precipitation information. The map's background has bodies of water in light blue and land in white. The locations labeled on the map are Keila, Saue, Tallinn, Maardu, Rapla, and Aegviidu.

The precipitation is represented by different colors. The blue areas indicate light precipitation, while the red and orange areas indicate heavier precipitation. There is a large area of heavy precipitation in red and orange around Keila and Saue. There are also patches of lighter precipitation in blue scattered across the map.

There are three lightning bolt icons indicating thunderstorms. One is located just to the west of Keila, another is slightly to the northwest of Saue, and the third one is between Keila and Saue.

At the bottom of the screenshot, there is a timeline from 15:30 to 17:00 with a marker at 16:18, indicating the time of the radar image. The top right corner has icons likely for settings and sharing options.