STRAP Technologies announced on White Cane Safety Day in the United States, the creation of a hands-free device designed to be worn by the visually impaired to allow for more independence and mobility.
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New Device Helps Blind and Visually Impaired Students with Practical Math
Oguz Karadag from Turkey has invented a new device that he claims will help visually impaired students do practical math with ease. This is a major breakthrough as traditionally many blind students are not encouraged to pursue math at higher grades.
The Read Read: An Interactive Tool That Makes Learning Braille Easy.
Alex Tavares has developed an interactive device that helps anyone learn braille. Working at Harvard’s Innovation Lab, Alex created a device that uses tiles with braille letters on each tile. When touching the tile, it responds exactly like a touch screen device. The Read Read will speak the braille letter, speak the dots used to create the letter, and even phonetically read back entire words. The Read Read was tested at the Perkins School for the Blind in Massachusetts with very positive results.
I believe this is the first device that allows a child or first time braille user the ability to learn braille in an interactive way without a specialized instructor present.
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