Over the weekend, Canada held its first national blind hockey tournament. How do visually impaired people play hockey? With a big, hollow puck 10 centimeters across and filled with metal nuts and bolts that rattle. Playe...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/18/Blind-Hockey/
It was a jarring moment when generations of young... ...But it turns out that scarlet fever doesn't cause blindness . Dr. Beth A. Tarini deduced, after a decade of re...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/04/What-Blinded-Mary-Ingalls/[youtube 59YN8_lg6-U](Video Link)"Color is hard. How do you sighted people keep them all straight?" Tommy Wilson has been blind since birth. He produces handy videos that explain that experience to sighted people, such a...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/06/How-Do-You-Describe-Color-to-Blind-People-Badly/
You can design a Rubik's Cube with Braille letters to signify colors. Doing so, howevever, presents a problem:But when you turn a braille letter upside down, it becomes a different braille letter. So as the user rotates...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/09/08/A-Rubiks-Cube-for-the-Blind/
Carnegie Mellon professor has developed a retinal prosthesis that restores sight to the blind: "My group has created a micro-fabricated thin film that is inserted beh...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/07/10/artificial-retina-for-the-blind/(Video Link) This is wonderful! Just because people can't see doesn't mean they can't play a competitive sport. Beep Baseball uses beeping softballs and bases to tell players when to swing the bat and where to find...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/03/beep-baseball-softball-for-the-visually-impaired/
The South African division of the fast food chain Wimpy provides menus in Braille. To get the word out, its chefs produced hamburger buns with sesame seeds carefully arranged on the surface to spell out words in Brai...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/12/braille-handburgers/
Akanksha Jain would like to make a zoo in Ahmedabad, India accessible to visually impaired visitors. One cool feature that she's designed is a handrail with Braille descriptions of animals and their environments, as well...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/01/braille-handrails-at-a-zoo/(Video Link) A school in São Paulo, Brazil trains people who are visually impaired -- many completely blind since birth -- to be graceful and coordinated ballet dancers. Fernanda Bianchini opened her school in 1995 a...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/28/ballet-school-for-blind-dancers/
Robert Ainsley-Raffel of Hexham, UK, has been blind since birth. But he's determined to achieve the goals that he's set for his life, including becoming a qualified plumber and a certified diver: Robert passed his div...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/05/blind-diver-gets-scuba-certification/
