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Vibrating Braille Mobile Phone for the Visually Challenged, developed in Japan |
Several technologies, from internet-enabled phones, to touchscreen and dual screen handsets, it’s all been evolved in the present technology enhanced world. Though these developments are applaudable... |
Product and Technology |
20/Jul/2012 |
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Assembly polls: EVMs to have Braille option |
The Election Commission will issue directions to State ChiefElectoral Officer M.N. Vidyashankar to ensure that all electronicvoting machines (EVMs) to be used in the Assembly elections in theState... |
General |
20/Jul/2012 |
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Cooking Without Looking' Groundbreaking show caters to visually impaired chefs |
Lesson No. 1 on Celia Chacon's television cooking show — use what you have, find substitutes for what you don't.
Except this food TV host isn't just talking ingredients. She's teaching viewers to use... |
General |
20/Jul/2012 |
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Seven blind kids do tap dancing in unique film |
Can you visualise blind children learning tap dancingto perfection? This is exactly what one-time TV actor Kumar Bhatia hasdone in his forthcoming film 'Seven'. And he has signed on seven kidswho are... |
General |
20/Jul/2012 |
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Visually impaired teens operate sandwich shop: Ky. Kingdom, school team up |
Working in a food-service job means attention to customers, assembling orders properly and keeping things clean, and doing these tasks requires extra effort if the worker is blind or visually... |
General |
20/Jul/2012 |
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New device that can predict blindness is launched |
A machine that can predict if you will go blind in your 60s by testing your eyes in your 20s is to be launched.
The Macuscope screens the macular pigment - the area at the centre of the retina that... |
Product and Technology |
20/Jul/2012 |
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Robo-pen for blind |
British researchers have developed a robotic pen that they say may enable blind people to write clearly and consistently.
All that one will have to do to use McSig – as the “force-feedback” pen has... |
Product and Technology |
20/Jul/2012 |
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U.N. convention for disabled to take effect May 3 |
A U.N. convention aimed at ensuring equal rights for the world's 650million disabled people in work, education and social life will go intoforce on May 3, the United Nations said on Thursday.
The... |
Policy News |
20/Jul/2012 |
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Chandrayaan' aims to inspire visually-challenged |
In an effort to unlock the untapped potential of visually-challenged children and to make available Braille literature on science and astronomy, which are pretty rare to find, city-based Planetary... |
General |
20/Jul/2012 |
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Talking laptops for visually impaired students |
Bahrain has vowed to provide all visually-impaired students with talking laptops
to integrate them to
modern technology.
More than 300 blind that would be given free talking laptops are being... |
Education and Employment |
20/Jul/2012 |
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