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Visually Impaired iOS Users Can Now View The World Through ‘Aipoly Vision’ |
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... |
General |
06/Jan/2016 |
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The bionic eye changing a woman's life |
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... |
General |
05/Jan/2016 |
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Louis Braille’s birth anniversary: In a first, visually-impaired man reads news on AIR Pune |
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... |
General |
05/Jan/2016 |
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World Braille Day: 9 facts about the Braille Code and the man behind it |
Louis Braille, the developer of Braille Code, was born on January 4 in 1809. The day is celebrated as World Braille Day.
An educator from France who had accidentally lost his eyesight at the age of... |
General |
04/Jan/2016 |
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Technology beyond Braille has come in handy for many |
While hailing the revolutionary discovery of Louis Braille as being a fundamental necessity that helped them overcome barriers, some of the visually challenged professionals in the city feel that... |
General |
04/Jan/2016 |
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Bengaluru’s first industrial Braille press in HSR Layout |
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... |
General |
04/Jan/2016 |
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WAITING FOR YEARS TO GET A BRAILLE EMBOSSER |
Computerised Braille embosser may have replaced the manual Braille typewriter bringing down the laborious work of producing a Braille book.
But at the State Central Library at Cubbon Park, armed... |
General |
04/Jan/2016 |
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Taking eye care to every corner of rural India |
Jayant Sriram explores the thriving social entrepreneurship model of Aravind Eye Care
here is a documentary video that is shown to visitors at the Aravind Eye Care headquarters in Madurai as a... |
General, Medical |
31/Dec/2015 |
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STATE HAS 12.44L DIFFERENTLY-ABLED PERSONS |
Chief Secretary AP Padhi visited and reviewed the activities of the newly-formed Social Security and Empowerment of Persons with Disability Department on Wednesday.
Department Secretary Saswat Mishra... |
Achievements, General, Policy News, Education and Employment |
31/Dec/2015 |
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Software needed to help visually challenged’ |
Charudatta V. Jadhav, president of the All-India Chess Federation for the Blind, said on Saturday that it was essential to develop an online software to help visually challenged chess players to... |
Accessibility, Achievements, General, Product and Technology |
28/Dec/2015 |
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