SWIPE | Helping blind people ‘read’ & meeting video games writer Rhianna Pratchett

A wearable device that 'reads' text and plays it back via a speaker could help partially sighted people use things like signs, menus and books. Will Sargent tries out the product, Orcam, to see how well it works.

How do you write the story of a video game? Gemma Morris finds out from one of the experts, Rhianna Pratchett, part of the team that revamped Lara Croft.

Fifa 17 is out so we decided to review it, alongside Forza Horizon 3 and Destiny: Rise of Iron.

And our tech news round-up includes a new way of tracking whales.

Watch Swipe this weekend on Sky News on Friday at 9.35pm; Saturday at 10.30am, 2.30pm and 4.30pm and Sunday at 2.30pm and 4.30pm.

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