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Visually Impaired iOS Users Can Now View The World Through ‘Aipoly Vision’

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 10:47 -- sharonee@eyeway.org
There is now a free iOS app that enables the blind, visually impaired, and color blind, understand their surroundings through object and color recognition. Optimised for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, the app allows users to toggle between its two main functions: object recognition, and color recognition. AppAdvice reports, however, that the app’s object recognition is a little hit and miss, although color recognition seems to work flawlessly. Aipoly Vision’s developer says,

The bionic eye changing a woman's life

Tue, 01/05/2016 - 14:18 -- sharonee@eyeway.org

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 attempt to give them some sight, and independence, back. The first patient in this trial is 49-year-old Rhian Lewis, from Cardiff. She explains: "I was a toddler when my parents noticed I would not cross a darkened room, even from one light room to another light room, and that I was really scared of the dark.

Louis Braille’s birth anniversary: In a first, visually-impaired man reads news on AIR Pune

Tue, 01/05/2016 - 10:29 -- sharonee@eyeway.org

IT WAS a routine broadcast schedule for the listeners of All India Radio (AIR) on Monday morning, when presenter Manoj Kshirsagar started the regional news bulletin at 7.10 am in his distinctive voice. However, halfway into the bulletin, Kshirsagar said that he would now pass on the microphone to Dhanraj Patil, a representative of Pune Blind Men’s Association, who will complete the bulletin by reading the news in braille.

Bengaluru’s first industrial Braille press in HSR Layout

Mon, 01/04/2016 - 10:56 -- sharonee@eyeway.org
The city is all set to get its own industrial-scale Braille press in HSR Layout, which is also set to print the first Braille magazine in the State.

Mitra Jyothi, an NGO working for the visually challenged from the past 25 years, has been granted Rs. 1-crore Braille press by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment as part of a programme to establish 16 Braille press across the country in 2015.

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