The Central Government Wednesday informed the Delhi High Court that equal benefits for postal life insurance will be provided to the differently-abled government employees with a maximum limit of Rs 5,00,000.
Lighthouse International is participating in an exciting research project that holds great promise for helping people who are blind to see. It is the only FDA-approved, long-term clinical trial of its kind to determine the effectiveness of a new retinal prosthesis — and it is already yielding promising results. We’re not the only ones sharing the great news; CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta reported the story, as did The New York Times.
This prosthetic is a breakthrough in enhancing the vision — and life — of people with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) … people like Barbara Campbell.
A visually challenged person cannot see the beauty of the Taj Mahal. But now he will be able to ‘feel’ the beauty of the monument by touching the exteriors of a scaled-down model of the Taj.
Sounds unreal, but a team from IIT-Bombay believes that the use of haptic technology — in simpler words, the science of touch — can make this a reality.
Teaching elderly people how to use a cellphone can be frustrating.
Businessman Jagdishbhai Patel experienced this first-hand when he was planning to buy a new mobile phone for his father, 62-year-old Nangibhai Vishrambhai Patel. Most handsets in the market either had too many features or had tiny buttons on a small keypad.
“My father is growing old and his shaky fingers end up pressing two or more buttons at the same time,” he says.
A blind man in the US is said to have created history by driving a car around a race track in a test which could one day lead to all visually impaired people taking to the roads, a media report said.
Mark Riccobono, 34, successfully navigated his way round the Daytona International Speedway in Florida, overtaking a van and dodging some cardboard boxes thrown in his way, the 'Daily Mail' online reported.
A bionic eye that allows the blind to see has been approved after thorough testing.
Tests have demonstrated that the device is safe, which could mean that it eventually becomes routinely available on the NHS. Specialists said that tests over almost three years had "impressed" beyond their "most optimistic expectations ," reports the Daily Express.
Revolutionary retina implants work in conjunction with a camera mounted on a pair of glasses. The camera sends signals to an implanted chip near the retina, which stimulates retinal cells and produces visual light patterns.
IMAGINE you are arriving late at night in Singapore. You check into one of the most modern hotels there but you are not able to get to your floor because you (being vision-impaired) can’t navigate the buttons on the lift and the lift doesn’t tell you which floor you’re on. So you go back to the reception desk to ask someone to take you up to your room.
The Xavier's Resource Centre for the Visually Challenged (XRCVC) on Thursday launched fully accessible `talking electrotherapy physiotherapy equipment', for the visually challenged physiotherapists.
Dr Sam Taraporevala, director of XRCVC, told reporters today that this was a "breakthrough", as in the absence of accessible devices, the visually challenged physiotherapists relied on various kinds of adaptations and work-arounds.
A team of ASU students and alumni has developed a device to help low-vision students who have trouble seeing the board in class.
The team developed a device — the Note-Taker — to assist low-vision people with what they said was a delay between the blackboard and a person’s own hand-written notes.
The device is made up of a tablet PC and a camera that can zoom in on a blackboard so a user can see images up close.
Your eyes are absorbing this Web page. They're passing over this, this, then this word, right now. That's how reading works, online: You take this for granted. But what if you couldn't?
We grant our gaze to electronic screens for most of the day, and in return, they give us anything we want. We stare; they glow. We rarely speak, and neither do they.
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