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Invention helps blind people see with their fingers
With a pea-like camera, image analysis software and a super-small laptop, the blind can locate objects in the surrounding environment.
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'Vision machine' for people with poor vision
Elizabeth Goldring, a blind expert working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States, designed one
Science invention
Hand-held machine helps blind people read printed newspapers
The National Union of Blind People has just announced a breakthrough device - a reading machine for the blind. This handset will take pictures and read any printed text…
Science invention
when was the typewriter created?
The first patent-born typewriter belonged to an Englishman named Henri Mill since 1714, although it was not yet completed. More than a century later, in the United State…
Computer science
Opportunity for visually impaired people to use computers
New technology that can display Braille on computer screens has opened up the opportunity to use computers for visually impaired people in the 21st century.
Computer science
IBM helps visually impaired people watch videos online
A-Browser (A stands for Accessibility) will allow blind and visually impaired people to manage multimedia content like normal people. IBM said the software will reach us…
Computer science
Benefits from BCC function when sending email
BCC is short for Blind Carbon Copy, allowing you to hide the list of recipients in emails. Unlike addressing in To: or CC: fields (Carbon Copy: co-sent), addressing in B…
Computer science
Text editing tool for visually impaired people
A group of students from Ho Chi Minh City University of Natural Sciences had an idea to build a program to support blind people to edit documents on computers. The proje…
New technology
Discovering a smart stick is like the 'eyes' of the visually impaired
Discover the smart stick - designed by two high school students - to be able to replace the
New technology
Robot 'blind knight' Perfect ball pitcher doesn't fall just by listening to the sound
Robots are doing more and more things that people still think are difficult.
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MIT's 'blind robot' can run, climb stairs proficiently
We have seen the robots of Boston Dynamics able to move on the legs proficiently or climb stairs and run at high speed.
New technology
Toyota registered a patent for A-cylinder cars can see through
Toyota's patent portfolio was announced earlier this month and is described as a way to reduce blind spots by using reflective mirrors around the A-pillar of the car.
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Intelligent glasses help blind boy see his wife on the wedding day
Thanks to a special smart glass, a blind American man was lucky to see his wife in a beautiful white dress on the most important day of his life.
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New technology helps blind people to read without braille
Blind people can read between 63 and 81 words per minute thanks to a finger-mounted camera system that recognizes the text and reads them out loud.
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The film is thinner than the hair, which helps blind people regain their sight
Australian scientists develop corneal cell culture technology on transparent hydrogel membranes, which can be used to implant the eye and restore vision to the blind.