blindness
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Tiny Gas Explosions Create the Raised Dots on This Electronic Braille Display
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 array of rounded pins. Researchers from Cornell University are working on an explosive new approach that could produce dynamic braille displays that…
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A 4-Year-Old Girl’s Sudden Blindness Is A Tragic Reminder Of Why Everyone Should Get The Flu Shot
A 4-year-old Iowa girl’s tragic bout with the flu should remind everyone why getting vaccinated is so important. Her family says that the unvaccinated girl’s infection led to serious neurological complications that have left her blind, perhaps permanently.
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Apple And Microsoft Help Create New Standard For Braille Displays
Today, many people who are blind or have low vision must cobble together different hardware and software just to use computers. But a new standard backed by some of the biggest names in tech should mean that braille device users wont have to search for custom software for different operating systems and screen readers.
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Australian Scientists Are Using Artificial Intelligence To Prevent Blindness In People With Diabetes
Australian scientists have developed an artificial intelligence-driven technology that could make it easier to prevent blindness in the 1.7 million Australians with diabetes. Patients usually wait up to six weeks for a specialist to screen them for diabetic eye disease. But with this new CSIRO-developed eye-screening technology, patients can be screened by their regular doctor…