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Tablet for Visually Impaired individuals developed in Azerbaijan

Azerbaijani developers have created a display of the Braille Pad tablet PC for visually impaired individuals, project leader Rashid Aliyev told Trend on June 14.

The prototype of the tablet is likely to be assembled in the design offices in China and Ukraine.

White Sox Welcome Visually Impaired Students To The Cell To Play Ball

Armour Square: Before theWhite Sox invited her to U.S. Cellular Field to experience what it’s like to play baseball, Jasmin Washington had never set foot in a ballpark. The 16-year-old visually impaired student sophomore from Curie Metropolitan High School had only heard games broadcast on the radio.

With a dozen visually impaired students from the Vision Resource Program at Curie at her side, Jasmin had one goal for the day:

“I want to hit a baseball,” she said.

Turning Paralympic Sport of Goalball Into a Video Game

The bounce of a ball, the jingle of a bell and the roar of the crowd — these are the sounds of goalball, the Paralympic sport of champions. Introduced to the world in the 1976 Summer Paralympics in Toronto, goalball is the first sport created for athletes with a visual impairment. Thirty years later, a group of Drexel University students are turning goalball into a video game that uses auditory and tactile feedback to capture the excitement and intensity of the sport.

More visually-impaired children now going to schools: Study

There was a 17.36% rise in enrolment of visually challenged children in schools between 2002 and 2009, NCERT's eighth all-India school education survey has revealed.
With 40,635 students, Maharashtra had the highest number of visually challenged students in schools, followed by the country's most literate state Kerala with 38,230 students.

Blind woman starts up voice recording company inside Clifton Park home

Visually impaired runner among the elite at women’s mini-marathon in Dublin

Dublin: “My vision is quite blurry, but I was able to follow the track. I had a guide with me, but I lost her,” said Niamh from Co Laois.

HC: Blind people eligible to be awarded distributorship of regular LPG

KOCHI: The Kerala High Court on Monday held that visually challenged persons are eligible to be awarded distributorship of regular LPG. Justice A Muhamed Mustaque issued the order on a petition by P Baby of Kanjirampara, Thiruvananthapuram, who is totally blind, challenging denial of LPG distributorship to him.

Pothole Detection for the Visually Impaired

Over the years, researchers and companies have invented plenty of devices to help people with visual impairments avoid objects such as a desk or chair. Many of these gadgets used ultrasonic sensors to detect such hazards. Just to name a few, there was the discontinued Pathsounder (which hung around a person’s neck), the cumbersome NavBelt (worn around the waist), and the wheeled GuideCane.

3D printer opens up endless education opportunities for the blind in Edmonton

A new 3D printer in Edmonton could transform the way people who are blind or have low vision learn.

Scholarships given to Visually Impaired Students

Jalandhar, May 29 :The Netraheen Vikas Manch, Jalandhar, held the fifth scholarship distribution ceremony for visually impaired students on Sunday. The president of the manch Subhash Gupta and Sanjeev Kumari organised the ceremony in Jalandhar to honour visually impaired students.