News tagged with braille display
Electroactive polymer key to durable, affordable full-screen Braille displays
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of North Carolina State University researchers are one step closer to creating a workable, affordable full-screen Braille computer display that would allow the blind to scan Web pages in much the same ...
Mar 28, 2012 |
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Breakthrough design opens door to 'full screen' Braille displays for the blind
Imagine if your computer only allowed you to see one line at a time, no matter what you were doing - reading e-mail, looking at a Web site, doing research. That's the challenge facing blind computer users ...
Mar 29, 2010 |
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Braille Displays Get New Life With Artificial Muscles
(PhysOrg.com) -- Research with tiny artificial muscles may yield a full-page active Braille system that can refresh automatically and come to life right beneath your fingertips.
Aug 14, 2009 |
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UC students design a better pill bottle for the blind and visually impaired
It’s easy to see that University of Cincinnati design students Alex Broerman and Ashley Ma are on to something with their new design and prototype for a prescription-medicine pill bottle that better serves ...
May 21, 2012 |
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The world's first sterilizable flexible organic transistor
An international research team has succeeded in manufacturing on a polymeric film the world’s first flexible organic transistor that is robust enough under high temperature medical sterilization process. ...
Mar 07, 2012 |
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App turns tablet into math aid for visually impaired students (w/ video)
Without looking down, Kira runs her index finger across the screen of an Android tablet that she is holding in her lap. For the occasion, she has painted her fingernails bright pink. When her finger touches ...
Mar 05, 2012 |
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Weird and wacky: Inventors show off their devices
They say there's a gadget for just about everything. That now includes boots which detect radiation and a kangaroo tail for weary humans who'd like a rest but can't be bothered to sit down.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Apr 06, 2011 |
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Researchers work to develop a vehicle that can be driven by the blind
Last Saturday, a blind driver dodged cardboard boxes thrown in front of him while driving a modified Ford Hybrid Escape around the Daytona International Speedway. He had only seconds to react to the obstacles.
Feb 04, 2011 |
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The future of reading
Emma Teitgen, 12, thought the chemistry book her teacher recommended would make perfect bedside reading. Perfect because it might help her fall asleep.
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Jul 21, 2010 |
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Study measures single-molecule machines in action
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the development of future molecular devices, new display technologies, and "artificial muscles" in nanoelectromechanical devices, functional molecules are likely to play a primary role.
Jul 06, 2010 |
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New technology helps visually impaired to 'see' emotions
Without vision it's impossible to interpret facial expressions, or so it's believed. Not any more. Shafiq ur Rehman, Umea University, presents a new technology in his doctoral thesis - a Braille code of emotions. ...
Apr 27, 2010 |
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Making Braille music universally accessible
(PhysOrg.com) -- Blind musicians have had restricted access to scores due to the scarcity and limitations of Braille transcriptions. A new European system makes music for the blind more available and far easier ...
Jan 21, 2010 |
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New Bluetooth system orients blind and sighted pedestrians
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new Bluetooth system designed primarily for blind people places a layer of information technology over the real world to tell pedestrians about points of interest along their path as they pass them.
Sep 18, 2008 |
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