Gift guides for the visually impaired, accessible kitchens, NVDACon, and more

AccessWorld's December issue is out, and includes its
https://www.afb.org/aw
annual holiday gift guide
https://www.afb.org/aw/21/11/17297

Worth mentioning is a couple of changes this year: all the products are either produced or sold by blind businesspeople and, unlike in previous years, the prices are much more in the affordable range.

The Accessible Kitchen Holiday Shopping Guide
https://www.afb.org/aw/21/11/17296
also works as a crash course in making a kitchen more accessible, whether it is a love one's or your own.

The online shopping guide
https://www.afb.org/aw/21/11/17298
provides detailed descriptions of the apps for three online stores: Amazon, Bed Bath and Beyond, and PetSmart.

The news section
https://www.afb.org/aw/21/11/17294
includes a reminder that the annual
NonVisual Desktop Access Virtual Conference is on December 4-6
https://www.nvdacon.org/
NVDA Con is a virtual conference held online each year by the community of users of the NVDA screen reader. The conference presents sessions on various topics related to NVDA, offers spaces where NVDA users can network, and ends with a keynote address from the developers of NVDA.

Lastly, For the Apple user, Tech Juggernaut has just posted their holiday gift guide. You can access it either as a podcast or read highlights on
the blog post
https://ttjtech.net/2020/11/25/ttj-2020-holiday-gift-guide-now-available/

Interview with Doug Lee, blind programmer

Freedom Scientific's FS Cast 191 includes an interview with Doug Lee, whose scripts I have mentioned a number of times over the past few months. He writes scripts which make Jaws more accessible with various programs, including scripts for using Discord, Slack, and Microsoft Teams. This is me trying not to make squeeing fangirl noises.
Links to be podcast can be found here
https://blog.freedomscientific.com/fscast-191-all-about-computers-for-the-blind-and-an-interview-with-jaws-scripter-doug-lee/

Letting teens sleep later may decrease number of migraines experienced

https://scitechdaily.com/sleeping-in-a-bit-may-help-teens-with-migraine-headaches/

Off-the-shelf 3D printers can now work with metals and ceramics

Thinking how this could benefit the production of prosthetics, making them cheaper and easier to produce, and also capable of making parts that need to be extra-durable, such as joints for arms and legs
https://scitechdaily.com/move-over-plastic-desktop-3d-printing-in-metal-and-ceramics/

3D bioprinted heart

I just know that there is a Jonathan Coulton song in this somewhere https://scitechdaily.com/new-tool-for-surgeons-3d-bioprinted-heart/

Cocoa can improve brain function

So, prune juice may be the drink of warriors, but cocoa could be the drink of geeks
https://scitechdaily.com/can-drinking-cocoa-make-you-smarter-cocoa-flavanols-found-to-boost-brain-oxygenation-and-cognition/