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Russian startup’s Kinect-like hardware aims to help the blind get rid of...
MOSCOW — After working for several years to give robots the ability to see and detect objects, the founders of St. Petersburg-based Oriense logically decided to bring their promising tech to humans....
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Teen invents method for transcoding text into Braille in printer’s memory
EXCLUSIVE: 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...
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AT&T brings wireless connectivity to Aira wearables for the blind
AT&T is diving further in promulgating the Internet of Things. On Wednesday, the telecommunications company announced a partnership with Aira to provide wireless connectivity to wearables for the...
View ArticleWatch a blind man drive to Taco Bell with a little help from Google’s robot cars
Self-driving cars are one of the projects that remind you of the good old days of Google, when the company was more focused on quirky “twenty-percent-time” projects than playing catch up in the social...
View ArticleScreenreader enables blind programmer to succeed on the App Store (exclusive)
Roman Koci is a computer science student, and like many of his contemporaries, he dreams of launching a successful app to inspire and entertain. After several failed ideas, he decided to create a game...
View ArticleDesire2Learn’s blind workers help make better accessibility tools for...
Education startups don’t typically have money to burn. But Desire2Learn is an exception; it recently raised $80 million, the largest-ever venture investment in a Canadian software company. What’s the...
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Blind review: A puzzler that leaves you in the dark
Blind is so keen to out-think the player that it too often leaves you, for lack of a better term, completely in the dark.Read More
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Echo Show camera can identify items thanks to Alexa’s Show and Tell
Alexa's new Show and Tell feature, which was designed with low vision and blind users in mind, identifies items placed in front of the Echo Show's camera.Read More
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Envision brings AI to Google Glass to help visually impaired users see
Wearable smart glasses with optical character recognition and computer vision AI will help users with low vision to read, recognize people, and travel.Read More
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