Starbucks Corp. is partnering with a technology company to make it easier for customers with vision problems to shop its stores.
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TouchPad Pro Assistive Technology has developed the BrailleDoodle
TouchPad Pro Assistive Technology, (TPPAT) has developed the BrailleDoodle, a simple, high-quality device made with plastics, springs, and magnets. The devices focus on: tactile art, braille literacy, technology, and expanding inclusive opportunities. The company wants to create devices that will change the landscape of assistive technology for the blind, deaf-blind, and low-vision community.
This braille device will control your smartphone
This start-up from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) introduces the Hable, enabling blind people to operate their smartphone with braille..
Kellogg’s Makes Cereal Boxes Designed for the Blind with Inclusive Packaging
This cereal box features a UK-first technology that a smartphone detects and reads aloud the labelling and allergen information to people with sight loss.
Is Apple Developing Braille for a Watch Band?
With the onset of Apple to deliver Apple Watch 6, a technique containing patent has been granted to Apple. The patent includes techniques for delivering information to a user devoid of audio or visual outputs. Tactile outputs are being used by the watch band to convey notification to a user.
LEGO Is Giving Sets of Braille Blocks for Visually Impaired Children In the US to Help Them Learn During COVID-19
Students in the US who are blind or visually impaired are getting an opportunity to enhance their learning experience during the COVID-19 crisis.
University of Singapore Scientists Develop Artificial Skin Capable of Reading Braille
A team of scientists from the National University of Singapore invented a new type of artificial skin packed with tiny sensors that allows it to actually “feel” whatever it’s touching.
Haptic Speaker Lets Blind and Visually Impaired People Read Braille in Midair
German researchers have developed an ultrasonic haptic speaker that allows them to display Braille numbers without contact.
braille Displays Could be Improved with New Electrically Activated Material
Researchers report an improved material that could take braille displays to the next level at a lower cost.
Software Developer Makes Corona Virus Statistics Website Accessible for the Blind and Partially Sighted
A Boston-based software developer wanted to make COVID-19 stats accessible
He created a website that would be easily readable by electronic braille readers and other assistive devices used by the blind and partially sighted.
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