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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-... |
Product and Technology |
21/Jul/2013 |
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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... |
Product and Technology |
21/Jul/2013 |
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Blind student, 20, in Hong Kong learns to read Braille with her lips — fingertips weren't sensitive enough |
Tsang Tsz-Kwan’s teachers at the Ebenezer School and Home for the Visually Impaired first noticed her trouble reading with her fingers when she was just 4 years old.
A blind student from Hong Kong... |
Education and Employment |
21/Jul/2013 |
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She lights up blind parents' dreams |
AHMEDABAD: Birwa Hadial was ecstatic when she passed the CA final exams on Tuesday. Her parents Damji and Krishna, however, were over the moon. The blind couple cannot see, but they had always seen... |
General |
18/Jul/2013 |
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Blind, but certainly not without a vision |
Up close with Ashwini Angadi, who arrived in the city on Monday, after being honoured by the UN in New York.
She walks into the room quietly and with measured grace. Her parents are elated with joy... |
Achievements |
18/Jul/2013 |
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No relief for Thanjavur blind school students |
The visually impaired students of a Thanjavur school who refused to come to Chennai for higher education have been told they have no choice.
A total of 19 boys and three girls of the Thanjavur High... |
Education and Employment |
18/Jul/2013 |
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Visually impaired student memorises Quran through Braille |
In a remarkable feat, avisually challenged student in an Islamic studies centre here has memorised the Holy Quran entirely using the Braille script.
Twaha Mahboob, a 21-year-old student of the... |
Achievements |
16/Jul/2013 |
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Life through the eyes of a true visionary |
Blindness did not stop me from fighting, said Kartik Sawhney, the visually challenged student who is now set to make the nation proud, by being accepted to Stanford. He was in Chennai on Saturday to... |
Education and Employment |
16/Jul/2013 |
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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.
Our country is home to 12 million visually impaired people, of which 56... |
Product and Technology |
15/Jul/2013 |
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Psychology degree for vision-impaired 21-yr-old |
Completing a bachelor’s degree with psychology as a single major was a dream come true for 21-year-old Kriti Banga, and a first for Mumbai university. Banga has been vision-impaired since birth. This... |
Achievements |
15/Jul/2013 |
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