February 9, 2005 A new printing attachment for Braille printers promises a new world for the sight-impaired and those who share their lives, enabling Braille documents to be shared with sighted ...

In an effort to make braille more accessible for the visually impaired in signage and printed media, Tokyo-based designer Kosuke Takahashi has hit upon a novel solution that merges those characters ...

May 13, 2008 Vision impaired users can now access books, news articles and web pages using an email-based service that translates text into Braille and audio recordings. RoboBraille is a free service ...

One group of people has traditionally been left out of our modern tablet revolution: the visually impaired. Our slick, button-less touchscreens are essentially useless to those who rely on touch to ...

If you’re blind, the world of PDFs and laser printers doesn’t do much for you. There are software programs and special printers that transcribe text into Braille, but they’ve traditionally been ...

Osaka firm Askk has a text-to-Braille converter, the Smart Braille, coming out later this year that it claims one-ups existing devices via a simple idea that makes reading continuous text far easier.

With the FingerReader, all a visually impaired user needs is to do is point. Print is everywhere. But rarely does a menu, magazine, or business card get translated into Braille. For situations in ...

The Blind reader-“Bridge” looks like a cross between the original iPod Shuffle and an old-fashioned vinyl record cleaner. It serves a more serious purpose than maintaining original copes of Yummy ...

WASHINGTON: A South Korean startup has developed an affordable Braille smartwatch which allows the visually impaired to receive and read text messages in real time and even read e-books. The wearable, ...

Given the chance, most people would run their fingers over Catherine Wagner's seductive new photographs of old books - braille books for the blind, with their worn hardbound covers and bumpy braille ...

For artists, their surroundings are the muse. The spark can come from a situation, dialogue or person. Chhattisgarh-based Vijaya Chauhan found her creative glint back in 2008 in two of her ...