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should do would be much appreciated.
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As a college student in Mumbai, I have experienced firsthand how hard
it is for visually impaired students to find writers before exams. I,
like other visually impaired students, would run from pillar to post,
desperate to find someone who would be willing to help out.
When you have experienced
An Indian entrepreneur built a haptic feedback navigation device for the blind
http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report-an-indian-entrepreneur-built-a-haptic-feedback-navigation-device-for-the-blind-886
Sun, 12 Jun 2016-05:59pm , New Delhi , PTI
Live Braille is the brainchild of
Google has filed a patent for a vision-correcting electronic device.
http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report-google-hints-at-cyborg-eye-implant-in-the-pipeline-2209333
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Bio-engineered pig corneas helping to restore vision in China
http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/bioengineered-pig-corneas-helping-to-restore-vision-in-china/article8348712.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed_medium=RSS_campaign=RSS_Syndication
Forty-seven patients who received the transplant at
BBC: The Boy Who Learned To See With sound.
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The country that supplies eyes
Cornea at National Eye Bank
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35410148
To restore sight to damaged eyes, doctors often need to transplant the cornea -
the transparent covering of the iris and the pupil - from a donor's dead body.
There is a worldwide shortage,
BBC News: The Bionic Eye Changing A Woman's Life.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35220615
At Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital, a clinical trial is taking place in which
six patients who have had little or no sight for many years are having a
cutting-edge "bionic eye" implanted in an
*“WHERE THERE IS A WILL THERE IS A WAY”*
*A REMARKABLE TRUE STORY THAT PROVES THE OLD SAYING*
*Story of a Blind man*
* Where there is a will, there is a way . This fact is proved by Mr.
Bhavanesh Bhatia. Please read on his inspirational determination,**will
power, hard work, ambition,
India's first Braille magazine, White Print, has illuminated the lives
of the visually
impaired
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Blind Man With New Bionic Eye Sees His Wife For The First Time In A Decade.
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England prepares for the blind cricket World Cup
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30166570
Clean India Campaign: Let us also chip in!
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BBC: Headset Guides Blind People In Cities.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29913637
A headset that talks visually impaired people around cities has been designed
by Microsoft.
It works with a Windows phone and uses location and navigation data with a
network of information beacons in
The blind man leading the blind orchestra
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-ouch-29688039
Baluji Shrivastav is one of the music world's most in-demand sitar players.
Blind since the age of four, he's now leading an ensemble of blind musicians.
Baluji Shrivastav has played on Top of the Pops
BBC: Hassan Khan: Blind Cricket Changed My Life.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-29424906
More players are now taking up blind cricket than ever before but why is the
sport becoming increasingly popular?
A bowler running in at full steam, a batsman looking for gaps in the field and
a
The Blind hacker Who Inspired Apple.
http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36doc_id=1319078
This is the story of a brilliant, highly skilled young man's journey that
spawned an entire new industry of engineers and arguably was the true seed
inspiring
the creation of Apple.
In 1968,
Smart Shoes Guide Runners The Blind With Vibrations.
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-07/24/lechal-smart-shoes
Ducere
An Indian company has come up with a sleek solution to wearable technology that
is entirely useful and doesn't involve reading any tiny screens. The
eet the retired Mirzas who make the best of HAM radios
In between noting down in Braille about those who have checked in,
72-year-old Perviz
Mirza excitedly demands that the walkie-talkie be handed over to her! Though she
and her 70-year-old brother, Vispi, take turns to go online on
alternate
3D Printed Ring Reads Out Text In Real Time For The Blind.
http://phys.org/print324010714.html
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing an audio
reading device to be worn on the index finger of people whose vision is
impaired, giving them affordable and
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I have been getting a “Page Not Found” message whenever I click on a Sendspace
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from Google also displays the same
Technology Extends Theaters Thrills To Blind Patrons.
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) Here are 5 Tips for Protecting Windows XP Machines After April 8, 2014:
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As you may have read in my post earlier this week about the end of days for
Windows XP, Microsoft will cease
This sounds amazing!
Indian wearable device Fin gets huge pre-orders
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/hardware/Indian-wearable-device-Fin-gets-huge-pre-orders/articleshow/31761591.cms
BANGALORE: A wearable device developed by a 23-year-old Indian based in Kerala
has
Seventh Grader Builds A Braille Printer With $350 Worth Of Legos.
http://gigaom.com/2014/02/17/seventh-grader-builds-a-braille-printer-with-350-worth-of-legos/
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The Village Where Half The People Are At Risk Of Blindness.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25877285#sa-ns_mchannel=rssns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
The village where half the people are at risk of blindness
By Angela Robson BBC Health Check
People queue for screening and treatment
In the
Man Saved From Blindness By Gene Therapy.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/man-saved-blindness-gene-therapy/story?id=21578118singlePage=true
help Courtesy Nick Tuftnell
At age 10 Nick Tuftnell knew he was going to end up blind after being diagnosed
with the genetic condition choroideremia.
The
d section.
In what could be India’s largest multi-level car parking (MLCP) at an airport,
the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport has made a special section
dedicated for cars of differently-abled people.
Officials involved with the development of the project said there will be
Big breakthrough in cure for blindness
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Dec 18, 2013, 04.00 PM IST
The breakthrough could lead to the production of artificial tissue
grafts made from
the variety of cells found in the human retina.
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LONDON: In a major breakthrough, an
inkjet printer
in Britain can print eye cells
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BBC World Service.
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Tactile Timepiece.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/eone/the-bradley-a-timepiece-designed-to-touch-and-see
I wonder what it costs and whether it can compete
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Jeffrey Archer To Turn Auctioneer For Tiger Pataudi To Raise Money For the
Blind.
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LONDON: Bestselling British author Jeffrey Archer, an avid follower of cricket
and a
Telescopic Lenses Can Help Treat One Of The Leading Causes Of Blindness.
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GW Micro, Inc. Announces SocialEyes
Fort Wayne, Indiana (July 3, 2013) - GW Micro, Inc. (www.gwmicro.com)
is proud to announce SocialEyes, an application for Windows-based PCs
that provides access to Facebook via a consistent, keyboard friendly
and fully accessible user
Top South Mumbai Stores A Nightmare For The Disabled.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/top-south-mumbai-stores-a-nightmare-for-disabled-activists/1116011/
DESPITE the state government's stringent guidelines to ensure the physically
challenged have access to basic infrastructure facilities,
Portrait Of A Blind Doctor.
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Blind Engineer At Georgia Tech Paves The Way.
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BBC World Service: Hope it works.
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Blind Drivers At The Wheel.
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The process
) On Main Menu for GMT Saturday 24 November, you will hear about JAWS 14, the
MiniGuide mobility aid, and the Reminders app in Mountain Lion. Listen to
the program at 02:00 GMT and for the next 24 hours at:
http://www.acbradio.org/mainstream
Or get it from the archive later at:
From TTT
5) ZCaptcha is a new service blind users can try for solving CAPTCHAs. There is
a minimal cost to use the service because the people doing the solving
are themselves paid a small amount.
http://www.azavia.com/zcaptcha
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Human echolocation: Using tongue-clicks to navigate the world
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By JONATHAN D. ROCKOFF
Scientists believe they may be on the cusp of
Visually Challenged Smell Jobs.
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Visually challenged smell jobs
Published: Monday, Jun 4, 2012, 11:00 IST | Updated: Monday, Jun 4, 2012, 1:27
IST
By
Deepa Sarna Gawli
| Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA
In a welcome
Light Powered bionic eye Invented To Help Restore Sight.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18061174?print=true
Light-powered bionic eye invented to help restore sight
By James GallagherHealth and science reporter, BBC News
A retinal implant - or bionic eye - which is powered by light has been
9) WebAIM has another fascinating screen reader survey for which they would
like responses.
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Blind Mice Eyesight Treated With Transplanted Cells.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17748165?print=true
'Blind' mice eyesight treated with transplanted cells
British scientists have restored the sight of blind mice by transplanting
light-sensitive photoreceptor cells into their eyes.
Voice-activated assistants are playing an increasingly prominent role
in the technology world, with Apple's introduction of Siri for the
iPhone 4S and Google's (rumored) work on a Siri competitor for Android
phones.
Voice-activated technology isn't new—it's just getting better because
of
Indian Engineers Modify Microsoft's Kinect To Help The Blind Walk With
Confidence.
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Madurai, Feb. 27:
An audio and Braille library for the visually-challenged students of
the Indian Association for the Blind (IAB) Madurai, with the support
of Amway Opportunity Foundation (AOF) and Amway distributors was
inaugurated on Sunday.
Equipped with text books, magazines, general books
A group of researchers at Georgia Tech have created a new piece of
software called BrailleTouch that allows users to type on a smartphone
without looking at the screen. It takes advantage of gestures and
multitouch interaction to support a chorded typing system that is
modeled after Braille
First trial results of human embryonic stem cells
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Technologies To Restore Sight To Retina Damaged Eyes.
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cricket team can be found? i'm looking for those.
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Pakistan's Cricketers Rule the Blind Game
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NICOLAS BRULLIARD
LAHORE, Pakistan –Abdul Razzaq is one
Pakistan's Cricketers Rule the Blind Game
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NICOLAS BRULLIARD
LAHORE, Pakistan –Abdul Razzaq is one of the most decorated players in
international cricket. When he's been captain, his team hasn't lost a tournament
since 2002. He is a two-time world champion and holds several world records in
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Maharashtra Reinstates Visually Impaired Clerk To College.
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EVMS With Braille Facility This Time.
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install?
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Seems a great development subject to trying it out and getting more detailed
information. The hitch is that it costs US $ 2,495.00! (about Rs. 1.25lakhs).
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Navigating Cities, For The Blind
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The Gift Of Vision.
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A Blind Man Goes Sailing.
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Blindfolded, they experienced disability
Published: Thursday, Sep 9, 2010, 2:22 IST
By Mihika Basu | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA
Imagine working, boarding a bus or even shopping blindfolded.
This is exactly what students and professionals experienced at a
sensitisation workshop-cum-exhibition
Lab Made Cornea Offers New Hope For Restored Vision
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HC seeks govt take on admission to disabled
Shibu Thomas, TNN, Jul 28, 2010, 03.12am IST
MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court has directed the Maharashtra government
to clarify
its stand on allowing visually challenged and other disabled students
from pursuing
professional and health science courses.
Haptics brings a personal touch to technology
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By Michael Fitzpatrick
Tokyo, Japan
Touch Screen
Touch screen has proved popular - but how about a computer that touches back?
When Aldous Huxley described the 'Feelies' of his 1930s satire
Here's an article someone posted to another list which I thought might
be good to read since your players have these batteries in them. The
article is from 2007, so some aspects may have changed within that
time. I personally let my player run down to 10% or below and then
charge it overnight and
June 18 (Bloomberg) -- Patients blinded in one or both eyes by
chemical burns regained their vision after healthy stem cells were
extracted from their eyes and reimplanted, according to a report by
Italian researchers at a scientific meeting.
The tissue was drawn from the limbus, an area at the
Be sensitive to blind people, Bombay high court tells govt
Hetal Vyas / DNA
Friday, June 18, 2010 0:56 IST
Mumbai:
Maharashtra government's attitude treating persons with total and
partial blindness
'uniformly' while considering them for jobs under the physically
challenged quota
has not gone
Subject: [Talking Tech With Startbutton] GoldWave 5.56 has bin released.
And this update looks like a real great one.
Here' is what's new.
GoldWave Revision History
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v5.56
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Added Speech Converter tool for text to speech and speech
recognition processing.
Fri, Apr 30 12:25 PM
London, April 30 (ANI): A four-year-old blind boy named Jamie Aspland uses
echolocation to see - just like dolphins.
Jamie makes clicking noises with his tongue that makes him virtually know where
things around him are lying.
It's amazing, his 39-year-old mother Deborah
Hi!
The Facebook Lite Site has shut down since Tuesday. Try using the mobile
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Thai boxing champion fights blindness for glory
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Surin:
Sujet Salee is a Thai boxing champion with an impressive fight
record, but the 29-year-old
also stands out among his peers for another reason: he's blind.
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available as both MP3s and as iTunes format audiobooks. Each entry for
a book includes links to the full text, supplemental text, and
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The reviews are particularly helpful because they are specific to the
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The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded major responsibility for the
development of a third-generation retina prosthesis to Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, California. The third-generation
artificial retina will enable previously blind people to read,
recognize people's faces and
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/02/business/global/02glasses.html?pagewanted=print
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by Bridgette Meinhold, 12/29/09
Researchers at Stanford University recently announced that they have
developed a new artificial retina implant that uses photovoltaic power
and could help the blind see. The problem with previous implants was
that there was no way send power to the chip in order
Braille menus surprise guests
Surekha S / DNA
Saturday, December 5, 2009 1:55 IST
Mumbai:
Nidhi Inani was puzzled when she looked at the menu card at a
restaurant in Worli
on Thursday night. The 20-year-old could not decipher anything on it.
But then came
help, a volunteer from the National
Qwitter is an accessible Twitter client designed for access by the
blind, providing an innovative integration between Twitter and a
user's screen reader.
http://www.qwitter-client.net/
Keep up with people you care about with Yahoo! India Mail. Learn how.
Intel will be releasing a win for visually impaired people, a new
device called the Intel Reader. It allows visually impaired people to
take a snapshot of a newspaper, book, or magazine and have it read
back to them. It's estimated that in the US alone there are as many as
55 million people who
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The greatest hurdle
Around the world millions of children are not
getting a proper education because
illness or disability prevent them going to
school. In the third report in the BBC's
Hunger to Learn series, Will Ross meets children
in Tanzania who are overcoming visual
impairment
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Now, single jab that could prevent blindness
ANI13 October 2009, 11:25am IST
A single jab can now prevent people from losing their vision, thanks
to researchers
at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, who have developed a new
method to inject drug into the blood by
Interesting.
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A chip inside the eye that can help blind people see again is moving
closer to reality as researchers at MIT work on a retinal implant that
can bypass damaged cells and directly offer visual input to the brain.
Patients who receive the implant will wear a pair of glasses that has
a tiny camera
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I've written a Jaws guide for the BBC iPlayer website, and it's available at:
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Also, there was an interesting article on the BBC internet blog in
june which includes details of codecs
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/
Websites will talk to you now
Sruthy Susan Ullas, TNN 2 September 2009, 12:37am IST
BANGALORE: Websites will soon be accessible to the disabled,
especially the visually-impaired,
once the Union government makes it mandatory for all websites to go audible.
For this,
3) Meanwhile, it's that time again, as a new version of JAWS, version 11, is
starting its public beta cycle. Listen to the official
version from the company on this month's FSCast:
http://podcast.freedomscientific.com/FSCast/episodes/fscast033-august2009.mp3
4) JAWS 11 is now in public beta,
Fred's Head leads us to two useful free programs for finding serial numbers for
all the software on the computer. LicenseCrawler
will find all serial numbers, including your windows serial number, though
you'll have to write them down since there is no copy feature.
This is a radio programme. The audio link is below and is only available until
27th August. Press Play - Pause button to listen. Enjoy!
No Triumph, No Tragedy - Thu, 20 Aug 2009Programme information
Peter White talks to disabled people who have bucked the odds and achieved
outstanding
August 13, 2009
Tasting the Light: Device Lets the Blind See with Their Tongues
A pair of sunglasses wired to an electric lollipop helps the visually
impaired regain optical sensations via a different pathway
By Mandy Kendrick
Neuroscientist Paul Bach-y-Rita hypothesized in the 1960s that we
Friday, August 14, 2009
Gene Therapy Creates a New Fovea
Treatment leads to an unexpected improvement in vision for one patient.
By Emily Singer
Twelve months after receiving an experimental gene therapy for a rare,
inherited form of blindness, a patient discovered that she could read an
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