News tagged with braille label

Students design portable Braille label maker

(PhysOrg.com) -- A device that started out as a class project last fall is moving rapidly toward becoming a commercial product that could make the lives of millions of visually impaired people a bit easier.

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1




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New intervention to reduce self-stigma among persons with serious mental illness

A new intervention, the result of a collaboration between researchers from the University of Haifa, City University of New York and Indiana University, was found to reduce the self-stigma and improve the quality of life and ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 13, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Efforts under way to make Web more accessible

(AP) -- Imagine not being able to use a mouse to open a Web browser or a keyboard to type an e-mail. What if you couldn't distinguish colors on a computer screen or type the distorted letters in order to ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Braille converter bridges the information gap

A free, e-mail-based service that translates text into Braille and audio recordings is helping to bridge the information gap for blind and visually impaired people, giving them quick and easy access to books, news articles ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 07, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Cybersecurity expert says nationwide use of computerized voting poses risk

Many of the paperless computerized voting systems adopted in wake of the "hanging chad" presidential election controversy in 2000 have the potential to create more problems than they solve, according to an information security ...

Technology / Other

created Oct 31, 2006 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Assistive technologies for the blind

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are developing new assistive technologies for the blind based on advances in computer vision that have emerged from research in robotics. A "virtual white cane" is ...

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created Dec 15, 2004 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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