Being a blind student or a grown up professional with the disability wouldn’t have been easy for any, it’s even beyond a thought for me. HumanWare however has deeply researched to understand their needs and have thus come up with a sleek and...
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Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is one of the most common causes of vision loss in children, and to address the concern, engineers from Duke University have developed a handheld device to help improve ROP diagnosis and treatment, which causes...
Just yesterday we updated you on the bionic lens that visions to get the computer into the eye. It’ll only be an add-on to the human‘s effort to go superhuman, but to actually let a blind see again - MIT may be working the way out. We’ve seen a...
Numerous kinds of Braille devices have been made to simplify lives for the people suffering with a visual impairment. While electronic devices still remain beyond that perfect touch of the blind – researchers and engineers led by Yosi-Bar Cohen, a...
We’ve always treated gadgets for the special people really special here. And phones for the visually impaired are ones to be reckoned with for the simplicity and the easy-to-use features they are made with. After the B-Touch, now it is the new...
Television and other visual displays have never been a real boon for the blind. Because nothing remains constant with technology, Britain's Royal National Institute of Blind People has worked out a talking chipset (that reads on-screen text) to help...
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Technology) is making its way into numerous applications and devices. In its first venture outdoors, Yelamarthi and five senior engineering students from Michigan University have created an RFID-embedded walking...
Never before have the visually impaired driven a car all by themselves, but with a laser range finder and an instant voice command interface embedded into a retrofitted four-wheel dirt buggy, the blind could be able to steer it, making it the first car.
An atypical tooth-in-eye surgery has restored the eyesight of Martin Jones. Blinded in an accident, the 42-year-old Jones was really excited to see his wife for the first time (after four years of marriage), when he pierced his world of darkness. In...
A consortium of research institutes and Universities is developing a system prototype, which with the help of clever algorithms and technology to convert spatial information into 3D acoustic maps would enable the blind see. For real-time image...
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