Product and Technology

Seeing beyond the white cane

West Australian researchers are developing a new gadget for blind people they hope will be the greatest innovation in the field since the white cane.

Once developed, the gadget would allow visually-impaired people to sense their entire indoor surroundings, "beyond the cane's tip," according to the Curtin University's Project leader Iain Murray.

This would be facilitated by special multi-sensor array technology to detect obstacles inside the room and then alert the user through an app, while providing directions to navigate it.

Israel's UpSense Allows The Visually Impaired To Use Touchscreens

Touch is a technology already well into its stride. Super LCD, Full HD Super AMOLED, Retina Display, Youm (can’t wait for these) – with every consecutive generation of phone/tablet device, the quality is improved and a new resolution standard is crowned king.

Connecting the dots

An urge to do something unique led a young entrepreneur to come up with India's first English lifestyle magazine in Braille.

Poorvanchal gets first talking ATM

The district got its first talking ATM machine designed specially to facilitate its visually challenged customers. This is also the first talking ATM in Poorvanchal. The ATM machine, installed by the KashiGomtiSanyuktaGrameen Bank (KGSGB) at its Akatha branch was inaugurated by the managing director, Union Bank of India (UBI) LalitSinha. UBI, the first in the banking sector to give India's first talking ATM in Ahmedabad, Gujarat has provided the technological support to KGSGB in the installation of the machine.

Reading tool for the visually impaired launched in India

A device for people with visual impairments that scans documents such as newspapers and magazines and reads them aloud has been launched in India.

ClearView+ Speech, which was developed by Netherlands-based firm Optelec, will be marketed across the country by BarrierBreak Technologies, an Indian accessibility and assistive technology firm.

Stevie Wonder urges UN forum to ‘sign, seal, deliver' treaty for visually impaired

Music icon Stevie Wonder, last week lent his weight to a video appeal about a famine addressing more than 600 delegates gathered at a United Nations forum in North Africa. But it wasn’t the sort of famine that has all too often afflicted parts of the African continent. Instead Wonder, in his own words, “Let’s get this ‘Signed, Sealed, Delivered (and) I’m Yours’,” was urging a UN forum in Marrakesh, Morocco to finalize a new global treaty to provide greater access to books for the blind, the visually impaired and other print disabled people.

Now, a software to assess disability

State IT dept says it will make the procedure transparent. The state Information Technology (IT) department has developed a new software to assess five types of disabilities; visual, hearing, physical, mental retardation and other mental illnesses.

Opening door to new technology for visually challenged

Sumit Dagar is a 29-year-old visionary who calls himself an 'interaction designer'. His technological skills, inventiveness and passion for design have prepared him for a place among today's young entrepreneurs. But there is one difference: he wants to put people's lives before profit.

In conversation with Purabi Bora of Indianexpress.com, Dagar talks about a prototype of an affordable Braille smartphone he has designed that will open the door to new technology:

QuickMedical® Launches Medicool Diabetes Products For Home Use And Visually Impaired

According to QuickMedical, Medicool provides unique products made to the highest quality standards. Insulin aids by Medicool are designed to help in measuring and administering insulin doses, and are Ideal for the homeuser in maintaining independence in their diabetes regimen.

The Medicool Insul-Guide Syringe Filling Guide is an ideal aid for people with diabetes who need help in accurately measuring their insulin, and the Medicool Count-a-Dose aid is specially designed for the diabetic who are visually impaired.