THE Google Impact Challenge is run by the technology giant and asks UK-based charities how they would change the world through innovative technology.
Dragons' Den star and entrepreneur Peter Jones is on the judging panel, and one of the finalists is the smart glasses prototype from the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB).

The mother of a severely disabled teenager who has been given only a few years to live says she has been threatened with fines and prosecution if she takes him on a term-time holiday.
Curtis Ingrouille-Kidd, 13, has cerebral palsy, suffers epileptic fits and is blind.
His family have been told he could die any time between the ages of 14 and 19, yet his school would not give permission for the proposed trip because it is during term time.

The case is the latest apparent injustice sparked by a crackdown on truancy ordered by the former Education Secretary Michael Gove.

A project to develop smart glasses which can help blind and partially sighted people see shapes and obstacles has been named as one of 10 finalists in this year’s Google Impact Challenge.

Created in partnership between the RNIB and Oxford University, the team has developed a high-tech, cost effective pair of smart glasses which its says will maximise the remaining vision the wearer has.
A 3D camera attached to the glasses captures images of a person’s environment and processes that information to identify shapes and object nearby.

A visually-impaired woman here has published the Quran in Arabic Braille. 

"Our institute's 23-year-old secretary, Rabia Khan, who is herself blind since birth has prepared the Arabic Braille Quran," Chairman of the Madrasa Noor Research Institute for the Blind Haleem Khan told reporters. 

State Commissionerate for Persons with Disabilities should be empowered and strengthened, said Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities Prasanna Kumar Pincha.

The Commissioner, who is on a visit to the state to review the implementation of the Persons With Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995, told a press conference here on Thursday that he was surprised to find that the state commission, a quasi-judicial body, lacked adequate staff with only two staff members and without even a peon.

 
 
It is grueling enough to swim 2.4 miles, bike 112 miles and run 26.2 miles, but imagine doing all of that when you can only see a blur of light ahead of you.

Kristina Ament, a 52-year-old federal prosecutor, has completed four Ironman triathlons under those exact conditions because of her Leber congenital amaurosis, a degenerative disease that causes acute vision loss.