Shruti Nivas, a product designer in Pune, India, developed this design that she calls "Sign." It's a navigational cane for visually impaired people. It has 2 buttons, one of which has a raised mark so that the user can d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/07/Light-Up-Cane-for-the-Blind-Communicates-with-Passersby/Jeffrey is blind in his left eye and mostly blind in his right. But his brother and best friend Jermaine can see clearly. So Jermaine guides his brother around and looks out for him.[http://vimeo.com/79676955] (Video Lin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/21/Blind-Puppys-Brother-Is-His-Seeing-Eye-Dog/(Photo: Cang Ye/University of Arkansas at Little Rock)This robotic cane is the future of navigational canes used by visually impaired people. Dr. Cang Ye, a roboticist at the University at Arkansas at Little Rock, led th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/27/An-Autonomous-Self-Steering-Robot-Cane-for-the-Blind/Over the weekend, Canada held its first national blind hockey tournament. How do visually impaired people play hockey? With a big, hollow puck 10 centimeters across and filled with metal nuts and bolts that rattle. Playe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/18/Blind-Hockey/It was a jarring moment when generations of young... ...But it turns out that scarlet fever doesn't cause blindness . Dr. Beth A. Tarini deduced, after a decade of re...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/04/What-Blinded-Mary-Ingalls/[youtube 59YN8_lg6-U](Video Link)"Color is hard. How do you sighted people keep them all straight?" Tommy Edison has been blind since birth. He produces handy videos that explain that experience to sighted people, such a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/06/How-Do-You-Describe-Color-to-Blind-People-Badly/You can design a Rubik's Cube with Braille letters to signify colors. Doing so, howevever, presents a problem:But when you turn a braille letter upside down, it becomes a different braille letter. So as the user rotates...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/09/08/A-Rubiks-Cube-for-the-Blind/Carnegie Mellon professor has developed a retinal prosthesis that restores sight to the blind: "My group has created a micro-fabricated thin film that is inserted beh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/07/10/artificial-retina-for-the-blind/(Video Link) This is wonderful! Just because people can't see doesn't mean they can't play a competitive sport. Beep Baseball uses beeping softballs and bases to tell players when to swing the bat and where to find...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/03/beep-baseball-softball-for-the-visually-impaired/The South African division of the fast food chain Wimpy provides menus in Braille. To get the word out, its chefs produced hamburger buns with sesame seeds carefully arranged on the surface to spell out words in Brai...
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