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Braille Mobile Phone rings in awards |
Samsung Electronic's 'Braille mobile phone' enables visually impaired users to send and receive massages in Braille.
The mobile phone has a unique ‘Touch Messenger’ system that allows visually... |
Product and Technology |
26/Jul/2012 |
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Seeing through his lens |
Like most people with a camera, he can't resist a photographic opportunity. But there is a difference, Dave Ducommun (Woodridge, U.S.) cannot distinguish everything that comes through his lens. He is... |
General |
26/Jul/2012 |
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Rex, the talking medicine |
Gerry Baze remembers the day he flopped on his couch and popped what he thought was a blood pressure pill. A few minutes after chasing it with a gulp of water, he told his wife, Maudie that he felt... |
Product and Technology |
26/Jul/2012 |
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British Blind Golf Championships |
World Invitational and British Blind Golf Championships, 2006 is being held in Edinburgh (U.K.), from 3 to 9 September 2006 at the Ratho Park Golf Club.
Golfer Cameron McDiarmid, 18, will defend the... |
Adventure and Sports |
26/Jul/2012 |
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Distance education for disabled |
In order to boost distance education for persons with disabilities, their parents and trainers, the Rehabilitation Council of India (R.C.I.) signed a memorandum of understanding with the Indian Space... |
Education and Employment |
26/Jul/2012 |
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The fight to finish - Minori Nakaoji |
Visually impaired Minori Nakaoji, 33, riding in a unique wheelchair, completed the 42.195-kilometer New York City Marathon. She is the first athlete with multiple disabilities to complete a full... |
Adventure and Sports |
26/Jul/2012 |
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New Year gift to blind book lovers |
This month, at the ‘Kolkata Book Fair’, ‘Voice of World’ will be ready to offer a new gift to the blind book lovers. The N.G.O. is going to release a Braille edition of Rabindranath Tagore’s short... |
General |
26/Jul/2012 |
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The bank with a vision |
Following discussions with the country’s ‘National Commission for Persons with Disability’, Bank of Valletta (Malta) has introduced this new service for its visually impaired customers to have better... |
General |
26/Jul/2012 |
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Justice by blind juror |
He was probably the first blind juror to sit on a Denver (Colorado, U.S.) jury. Joe Kovach, 29, recently sat on the jury that convicted gang member Timothy Guy Kemp of first-degree murder after a... |
General |
26/Jul/2012 |
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Garden of Senses |
"It has been a challenge but I wanted to create the relaxed feeling you get when you are on holiday on a beach, and at the same time, recreate the sounds, textures, the scents and even the taste that... |
General |
26/Jul/2012 |
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