Few senior officers had the capacity to give their troops a laugh, and the single feature that made tolerable my vision of D Day, if there was such a feature, was that Happy Halloran would be the one to lead me into the jaws of death.

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You can read more about Birnbaum, and his vision for Sodastream, in this feature.

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Seniors with vision problems should look for vehicles that feature large and legible gauges.

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Samsung knows you're too polite to hold the stranger up while you convey your vision, so it has come up with a camera feature that does the explaining for you.

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That feature, and other settings for people with low vision, can be found in the Universal Access section of System Preferences.

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Though it can be hard to remember, the keyboard used to be a standard feature on smartphones, before the iPhone wiped our minds with its vision of touch-screen Utopia.

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