For the very first time researchers have streamed braille patterns directly into a blind patient's retina, allowing him to read four-letter words accurately and quickly with an ocular neuroprosthetic ...

Two Cornell students have created BrailleWear, a smart glove that aims to improve accessibility and increase braille literacy rates among the visually impaired. BrailleWear was co-founded by ...

Learning to read Braille - the tactile writing system used by people who are blind and visually impaired - is notoriously difficult. To make this a little easier, researchers have designed vibrating ...

Researchers have developed a fast and accurate flexible tactile optical sensor capable of reading Braille. The technology could enable smart readers that convert Braille to speech or text, helping to ...

For people who rely on Braille, reading displays and signs in public can be a challenge, but a new system could help. HaptiRead is a haptic feedback device that uses ultrasound pulses in precise ...

The system uses a grid of surgically implanted electrodes to enable a blind person to “see” the letters. Image via Second Sight Over the past few years, retinal implants have come a long way. The ...

According to the National Federation of the Blind (NFB), just 1% of the blind population is born without sight; the vast majority of the estimated 10 million Americans who are blind or visually ...

Mobile phones play an important role not only in a normal person’s life but also in the lives of visually impaired and differently enabled people. This paper emerges and grows gradually in the field ...

They're shaped like normal Lego blocks, but these bricks have braille symbols on them too, which means they can be used for helping people to learn to read too Learning should be fun. That's Lego's ...

Braille wasn't designed to be seen or heard. For vision-impaired people already fluent in the language, this isn't a problem: Running their fingers across a page or a sign can give them valuable ...