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Magnum 860i

The Magnum 860i meets the rapidly evolving demand for professional high-speed braille printers by printing up to 600 pages per hour. The Magnum comes integrated with the Professional Braille software which allows creating excellent layouts, smooth graphics, and has support for style sheets and multilingual texts. The Magnum 860i is connected to a PC via parallel cable like any ordinary office printer. The big, noise absorbing case has room for over 1000 sheets of endless, fan-folded paper.bl

Index Everest

The Index Everest is a double sided (interpoint) and single sided fast braille embosser with stable handling of cut sheet paper at an economic price. It is easy to use and produces very high quality braille. This makes the Everest by far most used embosser of its kind in all countries where the users prefer to print braille onto cut sheet paper.

Students’ device helps visually impaired take notes

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 17:28 -- admin

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.

NGO prays for Braille ballots

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 17:27 -- admin

An NGO for the visually challenged has requested the West Bengal chief electoral officer to ensure better arrangements in polling booths for blind voters in the Assembly election.

The Calcutta chapter of the National Association for the Blind has written a letter to poll panel chief Sunil Kumar Gupta, asking him for adequate Braille ballots in all booths, as well as ramps to provide easy access for the wheelchair-bound.

India's first employability test to be held in Delhi

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 17:24 -- admin

Aspiring Minds Computer Adaptive Test (AMCAT), the country's first employability test will be held in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai on 9th and 10th of this month.

Graduate from BA, BCom, BSc, BBA, BCA, BHM or any other equivalent graduate course (non-engineering) can appear for the test and get a seven stroke report on their employability skills.

Students can register themselves at www.myamcat.com/graduates.am. Last date for registration is Thursday.

Students to record study material for blind

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 17:23 -- admin

A group of students have come forward to record in audio form the entire syllabi of Class VIII to XII for the benefit of blind.

We4You, a voluntary organization of students across the state, will start recording the syllabi from April 10 in a studio here, said Abhay Kumar Mahanata, chairman of We4You and a student of Gandhi Engineering College.

"Blind students are very good listeners. If they listen to the study materials it will be easier for them to recall. It will help them in their studies, apart from the Braille method," Sahoo said.

Impacto 600

With a printing rate of 600 pages per hour, IMPACTO achieves higher standards of printing rates. , , IMPACTO shows sharp and clear Braille outlines as well as infinite variable embossing depth, resulting from the particular shape of the embossing hammers. The number of moving parts has been reduced to a minimum in order to guarantee excellent reliability. This also makes the printer very easy to clean. All parameters of the printer can be adjusted to the user's needs by dialogue with a convenient operation system.

How blind people see the Internet

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 17:21 -- admin

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.

BTec 100

BTec 100: Small, light-weight and mobile, for personal and school use! A braille printer with automatic single-sheet feed and an own printer driver for Windows. A paper tray which is easily mounted on the printer can use paper widths from A4 to A3 (when vertically inserted). The paper format is automatically detected while being inserted. Additionally, the user can create and freely define as many ASCII braille tables as desired.

Vision for future: Bionic eye offers hope to blind

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 17:19 -- admin

For a man whose view of the world has slowly faded to black over 30 years, a device that allows him to see flashes of light has kindled his hope of one day gazing upon his grandson's face. A career electrician who grew up in Greece and came to the US as a young man, Elias Konstantopoulos first noticed his vision getting poorer when at age 43 he absentmindedly tried on a relative's eyeglasses and found he could see more clearly with them than without.

Scientists make eye's retina from stem cells

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 17:18 -- admin

A part of the eye that is essential for vision has been created in the laboratory from animal stem cells, offering hope to the blind and partially sighted.

One day it might be possible to make an eye in a dish, Nature journal reports.

The Japanese team used mouse stem cells - immature cells that have the ability to turn into many types of body tissue.

With the right mix of nutrients, the cells changed and began to grow to make a synthetic retina.

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