Nanoparticles restored vision to rats for at least eight months in a new study
New CVS Pharmacy App Feature Reads Prescription Labels Out Loud for Blind and Partially Sighted Patients
– CVS introduced Spoken Rx™, a new feature of the CVS Pharmacy app that can read important prescription information out loud.
Apple’s iOS 14 Releases New Accessibility Feature That Alerts Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Users
At its Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple announced that iOS 14 will have a new accessibility feature that can alert deaf and hard-of-hearing users to 14 different sounds.
Researchers Discover that Staring at Deep Red Light Improves Vision in People Over 40
Researchers have found that staring at deep red light for a few minutes a day can improve vision in those over 40.
This Glove Will Translate Sign Language Into Speech in Real Time
UCLA bioengineers have designed a glove-like device that can translate American Sign Language into English speech in real time through a smartphone app.
Multinational Researchers Develop Treatment to Prevent Blindness Avoiding Transplantation
The team was co-led by May Griffith, a researcher at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Centre, which is affiliated with Université de Montréal and is part of the CIUSSS de l’Est-de-l’Île-de-Montréal.
Student Develops Audio Horror Game for Everyone
A Tayside student has used his studies to create a horror game which captures imagination through the use of sound.
Get Surround Sound with THX Spatial Audio for Only $20
Since acquiring THX in 2016, Razer has been busy bolstering its audio offerings beyond its gaming brand (see: the company’s recently announced Opus headphones). Now the company is leveraging THX‘s clout in the cinema space by offering its surround-sound-for-headphones technology to any PC user for only $20.
Can Billions of Tiny Gold Flecks Help Restore Vision?
Scientists have come up with an extraordinary treatment for blindness that involves injecting 10 billion small flecks of gold into each eyeball.
New AI Tool Helps People with Motor Disabilities to Communicate
Researchers from the universities of Cambridge and Dundee developed the system for people with motor disabilities, who often use computers with a speech output to communicate. Unfortunately, these tools are generally slow and error-prone.