BALTIMORE (AP) — Chris Danielsen fidgets with the cell phone, holding it over a 20 bill.
"Detecting orientation, processing U.S. currency image," the phone says in a flat monotone before Danielsen snaps a photo. A few seconds later, the phone says, "Twenty dollars."
Danielsen, a spokesman for the National Federation of the Blind, is holding the next generation of computerized aids for the blind and visually impaired.
Applian Technologies' Replay AV was the only mainstream software nominated in the Best Software category in the Blind Bargains 2007 Access Awards last week. The other software nominated in the best software category was specifically designed for blind users. Although, Replay AV didn't win the award the program's inclusion in the top four Best Software category is a testament to the efforts Applian Technologies has put into making their products accessible to the blind.
A master degree student has developed talking books for the blind and is willing to disseminate the method to making them for others to produce teaching materials for the blind.
The blind students can hear birds chirping and learn the information of each kind of bird by touching the Braille alphabet and reliefs of bird pictures. Self-learning with talking books makes it fun for children. Before these books, they thought the sound of bird’s chirping was all similar.
Brian McKeever won his second gold medal at an IPC World Cup cross-country ski stop in Vuokatti, Finland on Tuesday.
McKeever, of Canmore, Alta., clocked 26 minutes 59.8 seconds to win the 10-kilometre race for the visually impaired with his brother Robin guiding the way to the golden spot on the podium. The pair also teamed up to win a 20-km race Sunday.
Russian skier Nikolay Polukhin was second and Frank Hoefle of Germany was third Tuesday. McKeever beat both men by more than three minutes.
A new vision research center opening in India today becomes the latest in a handful of facilities dedicated to exploring the potential of adult eye stem cells to repair vision damage. The Champalimaud Center for Translation Eye Research (C-TRACER), part of the LV Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad, India, will continue research begun by LV Prasad scientists, who use eye stem cells from living adults to grow new cells that are then implanted into damaged
A new contact lens embedded with electronic circuits could be the seed for "bionic eyes" that can see displays overlaid on a person's field of view, researchers say.
The minute circuitry could aid the vision-impaired or could be used to create tiny but discernible readouts offering data such as driving directions or on-the-go Web surfing.
Researchers at the University of Washington created the flexible, biologically safe lens—the first of its kind—using nano-scale manufacturing techniques.
Score Foundation’s radio programme Eyeway - Yeh Hai Roshni Ka Karwan has been adjudged the best radio programme in the category “Best Social Responsibility Initiative” at the inaugural Radio Duniya Award 2008 held on February 12, 2008, at Intercontinental - The Grand, New Delhi.
A Welsh/English Braille dictionary to help users translate, learnWelsh and support the use of Welsh among Braille users, has beenlaunched.
The 22 volume work is believed to be the first of its kind.
The book, which has been produced by the Royal National Institute ofBlind People (RNIB) Cymru, was put together by volunteers andspecialist staff.
A teacher for the visually impaired said the dictionary would have a "huge impact" on learning for pupils.
The Welsh Language Board provided 70% of the funds needed to produce the dictionary, launched on Tuesday.
Underground lifts, ramps, platforms thathave wheel chair access, toilets for the disabled—this is the Bombayhigh court’s vision to make railway platforms disabled friendly. TheHC on Thursday sought a report on the facilities for disabled atrailway platforms in Mumbai. Hearing a public interest litigation onthe lack of such facilities, a division bench of Chief JusticeSwatanter Kumar and Justice V M Kanade asked lawyers Mihir Desai andSuresh Kumar to visit Mumbai Central station for verifying the groundreality at railway platforms.
A group of blind Egyptian female musicians has wowed audiences in Canberra, proving it is possible to achieve dreams despite having a disability.
The Al Nour Wal Amal Chamber Orchestra performed in Canberra last night as part of the National Multicultural Festival.
It is the only orchestra in the world made up entirely of blind women and is their first visit to Australia.
Conductors have developed special techniques to enable the girls to perform as an orchestra without the need to read the notes during a performance and without the conductor's baton.
The abacus method to calculate numbers has become a rage among school students not to mention the visually-challenged students of Devnar School for Blind who bagged four prizes at a State level Competition that was held on January 20.
T. Andalu, (9th std.) and G. Satya Veni (7th std.) bagged the first prize while CH. Gopal, a 7th Std. and Yugandhar, 9th Std. students won the second and third prizes respectively in the level one competition.
Over 50 students are being trained in Abacus as a part of a brain developing programme in the Devnar School for Blind.
The centuries of Muhammad Akram and Shariq Yaseen helped Lahore to win the final One-day match by 6 wickets.
In the morning at LCCA Cricket Ground, in the last one-day cricket match,
Nepal won the toss against Lahore Cricket Association of the Blind and
elected to bat first.
Twentythree visually impaired girls studying in Coimbatore and Maduraireceived scholarships to continue their studies at a function organisedby UDIS Forum, a network that assists people with disabilities, at theBishop Appasamy College of Education.
Weeks after losing their long-time patron Sir Edmund Hillary, the Fred Hollows Foundation has launched its annual fundraising appeal with an All Black great stepping up to front it.
This year, Michael Jones fronts the campaign to raise money to fight blindness in the Pacific.
Jones presented the inaugural Sir Edmund Hillary Pacific Eye Scholarship in a ceremony in Auckland today as part of the official launch.
Take one part MacBook Air, one part Microsoft Surface and some 3D "z-axis" interaction and you have the Zen PC concept. The Zen PC is being labeled a sandbox PC. The unique nature of the tablet-like PC allows for users to operate the PC without the use of eyes because everything is done with an active surface that changes texture as you operate.
TwoQatari scientists have achieved a milestone by inventing a uniquelanguage tool for teaching blind people in Qatar and other parts of theworld.
Qatar'sAl Noor Institute for the Blind (NIB) unveiled 'the Braille Teacher', asimple learning tool for families to use for teaching blind person howto read and write Braille, at a ceremony held at Sharq Spa and Villagethis week.
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