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Gemini Print and Braille Embosser

Gemini Print and Braille Embosser produces print with Braille in one simultaneous pass, fulfilling a long-time dream of Braille producers everywhere. That’s not all that’s special about Gemini. The next thing you may notice about Gemini might be what it doesn't do— make much noise! Gemini is so extraordinarily quiet you won’t need to exile it to a closet or a sound-muffling cabinet.

ET

Producing top-quality Braille at 60 characters per second, ET's shorter 40-character line makes full use of standard-width Braille paper. ET is a speedy and economical choice to get professional-looking, space-saving interpoint.

Blind cruisers get to 'smell the ocean and feel the wind'

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 16:56 -- admin

This spring, Patty and Terry Horvath took 46 blind travelers on a Caribbean cruise.

The owners of Best Cruises & Tours in Grand Blanc, Mich., let participants pay $20 a week in installments for months or years to pay for the trip. They subsidized seven volunteers to accompany the group. They arranged special shore excursions on Nassau, St. Thomas and St. Martin. They kept the price as low as they could, pairing up the mostly solo travelers in double rooms.

Their biggest contribution? Serving a completely passed-over market — blind travelers on a budget.

Braille Place

BraillePlace, with speeds of nearly 300 characters per second and a 45-character line, is serious productivity for serious Braille publishing. BraillePlace connects to any computer through its parallel or serial ports and includes ET Speaks to vocalize controls and do other audio tasks.e

Braille Express 150

Built in a durable, transportable case, interpoint Braille Express 150 has a huge 400-page memory for your largest jobs and embosses at 150 characters per second. In production, it is estimated that a Braille Express 150, used for five hours a day, can produce about a half-million pages in a year.

India to host blind cricket Twenty20 World Cup

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 16:53 -- admin

India is set to host the inaugural blind cricket Twenty20 World Cup in December.

David Townley, president of the World Blind Cricket Council, says the group voted during a two-day meeting in the United Arab Emirates that ended Sunday to hold the tournament in Bangalore starting on Dec. 3. Its schedule has yet to be finalized but the tournament will last a maximum of 14 days.

He says council members Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, South Africa, Bangladesh, Nepal, West Indies and England will participate.

Braille Express 100

Built in a durable, transportable case, interpoint Braille Express 100 has a huge 400-page memory for your largest jobs and embosses at 100 characters per second. In production, it is estimated that a Braille Express 100, used for five hours a day can produce over 350,000 pages in a year.

Wheelchair uses 3D to ‘see’ for visually impaired

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 16:51 -- admin

Research on an electric wheelchair that can sense it´s environment and transmit information to a person who is visually impaired, has been tested at Lulea University of Technology.

The wheelchair has a joystick for steering and a haptic robot that acts as a virtual white cane. The “sighted” wheelchair has been developed by Kalevi Hyyppa and his team at the university.

“This may be important aids for the visually impaired who are wheelchair users. Many have already been in touch with me and asked if they can come for a test drive,” says Kalevi Hyyppä.

Book Maker

Built in a durable, transportable case, interpoint BookMaker has a huge 400-page memory for your largest jobs and embosses at 80 characters per second. In production, it is estimated that a BookMaker, used for five hours a day can produce around a quarter-million pages in a year.a

Mega Dots

MegaDots is a mature DOS braille translator with powerful features for the volume transcriber and producer. Its straightforward, style-based system and automated features let you create great braille with only a few keystrokes

GOODFEEL Lite

The GOODFEEL Lite Version gives you all the features of the full product but limits you to just one of these formats: instrumental music, vocal parts or keyboard., , GOODFEEL converts music files to braille. It transcribes instrumental parts, vocal solos, keyboard works and full orchestral scores from beginner through the advanced intermediate levels. , , With GOODFEEL® combined with a few mainstream products, any sighted musician can prepare a braille score without needing to be a Braille music specialist.

Practice, not loss of sight, improves sense of touch in the blind

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 16:43 -- admin

New research from McMaster may answer a controversial question: do the blind have a better sense of touch because the brain compensates for vision loss or because of heavy reliance on their fingertips?

The study, published in the most recent edition of the Journal of Neuroscience, suggests daily dependence on touch is the answer.

GOODFEEL® Braille

GOODFEEL converts music files to braille. It transcribes instrumental parts, vocal solos, keyboard works and full orchestral scores from beginner through the advanced intermediate levels. , , With GOODFEEL® combined with a few mainstream products, any sighted musician can prepare a braille score without needing to be a Braille music specialist. Blind users can make sound recordings and print and Braille editions of their compositions and arrangements. Music scanning software can be used to speed data entry.

Admissions in DU for PwDs from 28 May to 8 June 2011

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 16:41 -- admin

This year the admission for students with disabilities to under graduate courses in Delhi University will be conducted during 28 may to 8 June 2011. This is significantly different from the schedules of previous years when the admissions used to be conducted during 1 to 15 June.

The admission process of PwDs is conducted centrally. They do not need to go to the different colleges. They just need to walk in to the DSW office near University Main Gate, Delhi 7 with their 12th certificates and disability certificates.

She can't see but her dreams closer with 95% in CBSE exams

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 16:40 -- admin

A national-level chess champion, an athlete and now a school topper — Rinku Shekhawat from DPS RK Puram scored 94% in humanities in her CBSE Class XII exams. Her joy knew no bounds on Monday while her family back in Sikar in Rajasthan was celebrating like never before. Rinku cannot see. But she can see her dreams coming true now.

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