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AMI Launches Fully Accessible Apps for the Blind and Partially Sighted Community
AMI) announced the launch of two accessible applications created especially for people living with sight loss.
Introducing EyeSense, A Mobile App That Will Help the Blind and Visually Impaired to be Independent
EyeSense is building a similar application to SeeingAI by Microsoft, but with much simpler user interaction and more features, incorporating state-of-the-art image recognition algorithms that not only recognises and records different faces but also describes if the person is smiling back to you.
Youth Robotics Team Builds Device to Help the Blind
An idea for an invention to help people with blindness has lead a group of fifth-grade Sammamish engineers to the FIRST Lego League State Championships.
Medical Breakthrough Could Help the Blind See Using Genes from Algae
A French biopharma company has announced their plans to carry out human trials of a new treatment that would insert genes from light-seeking algae into the eyes of patients with inherited blindness in order to help them regain sight. The treatment involves optogenetics, a technique that converts nerve cells into light sensitive cells. Although optogenetics is commonly used in animal experiments, its effects on humans are far less known.
Court Rules That Massage Licences Are Only for the Blind
South Korea’s constitutional court defends law offering massage licenses only to the blind as they generally have fewer career choices.
Students Learn to Enhance Computers and Robots with Touch for the Blind
Students in Allison Okamura’s freshman Introductory Seminar designed touch-based devices to help pedestrians navigate, enhance a classic game and create depth perception for the blind.
Developer Making the First Bitcoin Wallet for the Blind
It’s hard enough for average bitcoin newbies to educate themselves as they learn the mechanics of financial sovereignty. For users with disabilities, it can be almost impossible. That’s why the Bitcoin Whitepaper in Braille project is working with the American Printing House for the Blind to translate the original bitcoin whitepaper for people to read offline, instead of strictly relying on digital audio files.
Engineering Students Develop Pulse, an Advanced Sensory System for the Blind
People with vision impairments face a perpetual problem: maneuvering through a world filled with obstacles and hazards. Meet Good Vibrations, a team of CU Boulder electrical engineering students who created Pulse, a product that will increase mobility for the blind.
Spotlight with Kirk Adams: President and CEO of the American Foundation for the Blind
In this Spotlight Interview, James Oates sits down with Kirk Adams, the president and CEO of the American Foundation for the Blind to discuss the mission of the AFB and the most pressing issues that blind people face in the 21st century.
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