Bob Knetzger of Boing Boing reports that, last year, Mattel teamed up with the National Federation of the Blind to produce a Hot Wheels toy car designed specifically for the visually impaired. The die cast car is covered...

Blind soccer was developed in Spain in the 1920s. The rules are complicated, but they permit a spirited game with demanding challenges for athletes.All of the players are blindfolded, except for the goalies and, for each...

Tommy Edison (previously) routinely makes videos to answer questions about what it's like to be blind. Some things he doesn't know, because he hasn't experienced them, like vision. Christine Ha (previously), on the other...

[https://youtu.be/8weMFaRFN5g] (YouTube link)Some of the things you have heard all your life about blind people ain't necessarily true. It's possible you've never thought about those myths enough to bother checking them...

Tim Doucette only has ten percent of his vision, but strangely, he can see better in the dark. Since his pupils do not dilate and constrict, too much light gets in during the daylight hours. Yet he can see stars in the n...

(Photo: OrCam)The developers of OrCam want the 280 million people around the world with significant visual impairment to be able to read printed text. So they developed a camera that fits onto a pair of glasses. When the...

(Photo: Amanda Wilkins)Amanda Wilkins is the mothe...  ...is the mother of two children, both of whom have blindness and autism. Taking them shopping is hard. When th...

(Photo: ABC News)21 years ago, Mary Ann Franco of...  ...w did it happen? It's mostly likely that Franco's blindness was caused by a kinked nerve, which the doctor un...

Rémi Gaillard, a professional prankster par excellence, pretended to be blind. This was simple enough: all he had to do was get a white cane and a pair of dark glasses.Then he went for a drive.This alarmed many pe...

This is goalball, a sport designed for people who can't see. It was invented in 1946 to help blinded war veterans. But even people who aren't visually impaired can play because everyone wears goggles that completely bloc...