(Photo: Kriyate Design Solutions)Kriyate Design Solutions, a start-up company in India, has developed a phone specifically for people with visual impairments. The phone has metal pins built into the body that raise and l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/10/19/A-Smartphone-Designed-Specifically-for-the-Blind/A Blind Legend isn't a video game that has been modified to make it accessible to people with visual impairments. It's designed from the outset to be used with only audio information. The player character is a blind hero...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/08/22/An-All-Audio-Video-Game-for-the-Blind/(Photo: FaceMePLS)What do dogs think about? I look at my own dog and wonder that. I'm especially curious what he dreams about, which he does, loudly and often. What is inside a dog's mind?This is an especially important...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/07/02/Scientist-Seeing-Eye-Dogs-Dont-Know-That-Their-Humans-Are-Blind/[http://youtu.be/91VUFVp1eXk] (YouTube link)Tommy Edison has been blind all his life, so he has no concept of color. Color is a measure of parameters he cannot perceive, but the connotations different colors have can be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/07/01/Describing-Colors-to-a-Blind-Person/Hélio Surdos's friend Carlos is deaf, blind, and a huge soccer fan. As a result of his sensory limitations, he's been largely left out of the excitement of the World Cup in Brazil. One morning, Hélio woke u...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/06/19/Wonderful-Friends-Help-a-Blind-and-Deaf-Man-Experience-a-Live-Soccer-Game/[http://youtu.be/9ABQ-U6V0tY] (YouTube link)Milena Channing had a stroke when she was 29, which left her blind. The damage was in the visual cortex of her brain, not in her eyes. She eventually started seeing raindrops,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/28/The-Blind-Woman-Who-Saw-Rain/(Image: CBS)Aaron Golub is legally blind. But that hasn't stopped him from being highly successful on the football field. He convinced Coach Ted Dalicandro of Newtown South High School in Newton, Massachusetts to let him...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/26/Blind-Football-Player-Signs-with-Top-College-Team/Shruti Nivas, a product designer in Pune, India, developed this design that she calls "Sign." It's a navigational cane for visually impaired people. It has 2 buttons, one of which has a raised mark so that the user can d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/07/Light-Up-Cane-for-the-Blind-Communicates-with-Passersby/Jeffrey is blind in his left eye and mostly blind in his right. But his brother and best friend Jermaine can see clearly. So Jermaine guides his brother around and looks out for him.[http://vimeo.com/79676955] (Video Lin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/21/Blind-Puppys-Brother-Is-His-Seeing-Eye-Dog/(Photo: Cang Ye/University of Arkansas at Little Rock)This robotic cane is the future of navigational canes used by visually impaired people. Dr. Cang Ye, a roboticist at the University at Arkansas at Little Rock, led th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/27/An-Autonomous-Self-Steering-Robot-Cane-for-the-Blind/
