Creating dynamic Braille displays that can quickly change their pattern of dots isn’t a new idea, but the existing solutions are often big boxes with complex mechanisms used to raise and lower an ...

AZoM speaks with Dr. Robert Shepherd from Cornell University. In their research, Dr. Shepherd and his team made a crucial component for a technology that could make inflatable braille that changes ...

Imagine if your computer only allowed you to see one line at a time, no matter what you were doing – reading e-mail, looking at a Web site, doing research. That's the challenge facing blind computer ...

In the same vein as an electronic newspaper, a new portable electronic Braille display has been announced, small enough to fit in your pocket—and can even be rolled up. Basically, it’s “a sheet of ...

Using methane micro-explosions triggered by high-voltage sparks, researchers developed electronically controllable “popping” Braille dots for a tactile reading surface. The problems associated with, ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) In order to make dynamic written content, for instance a news reader, available for blind or vision-impaired people, scientists have come up with various designs of sheet-type, ...

This patented-project is about a device that can be used by visually impaired individuals to read .txt files from CD-ROM, SD memory card or by connecting with a PC with/without cable. i-Bran also ...

For the visually impaired, touch is one of the ways they interact with their environment. This explains why braille uses raised dots. Talking about braille, the tactile system has not seen much ...