All the stories tagged with visually impaired
LookTel Money Reader app receives major update
10/11/2011, Remember the LookTel Money Reader app we talked about back in March? In case you forgot, Money Reader is an app that helps visually impaired folks to count their money with the aid of their iPhones. Using the camera on [...]
AT&T releases Mobile Accessibility Lite for the visually impaired or blind
10/03/2011, If you’re visually impaired or you know someone who is, and you want to help them experience their smartphone in an easier way, AT&T has just announced the Mobile Accessibility Lite application by Code Factory. It brings to the table [...]
EYE 21 system lets the blind “see” through the use of sound
07/07/2011, It seems that there have been quite a lot of new technologies that are coming up directed at those who are visually impaired or blind, and that can only be a good thing! We had previously reported on a “virtual [...]
High-tech glasses will allow those who are visually impaired to “see”
07/07/2011, Having one’s vision impaired can be life altering; the way we go about our daily life, the things we can and cannot do have all been changed. Sure we could use seeing-eye dogs which are extremely effective, but compare the [...]
“Virtual Cane” Lets The Visually Impaired Navigate Via Sonar
07/01/2011, A team affiliated with Israel’s Hebrew University, has developed a new device that would allow the blind and visually impaired to navigate their way by the use of “virtual canes”. The device makes use of sonar-like technology (much like how [...]
Tactile Wrist-Watch Helps Those Visually Impaired To Tell The Time
06/21/2011, Jacob Rynkiewicz decided that perhaps it was time to start focusing on the basic needs of those who are visually impaired. Sure there are fancy gadgets and devices that allow those who are visually impaired to get along with their [...]
Kinect as a visually impaired radar
03/17/2011, The Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Group from the university of Konstanz has created Navigational Aids for the Visually Impaired (or NAVI), an application that uses Kinect’s perception of depth to guide visually impaired people in buildings. It works by having Kinect “see” [...]
LookTel Money Reader helps the visually impaired count their money
03/10/2011, A company called LookTel has come up with an app that will help visually impaired folks with their everyday lives. Called Money Reader, this app makes use of the iPhone’s camera to recognize any US bill held in front of [...]
Concept: Readot For The Visually Impaired
12/03/2010, It’s not always easy for the visually impaired to enjoy some of the things that we take for granted but the Readot concept might be able to help them do so if it were turned into a reality. This device [...]
Concept: Tactile Phone For The Visually Impaired
09/02/2010, It’s not always easy for the visually impaired to use mobile phones, but a designer has come up with a concept phone that might be able to solve the problem, dubbed the Tactile. The Tactile uses digital texture to allow [...]
Tactile Texting Device For The Visually Impaired
08/26/2010, Sending text messages might be troublesome if you have a visual impairment, but this tactile texting device might go some way to making things easier. The prototype was designed as a project at the Eindhoven University of Technology and features [...]
Concept: Aicomobile Phone For The Visually Impaired
08/04/2010, Mobile phones for the visually impaired are always harder to design, but a Russian designer has come up with the Aicomobile, which is a design that resembles a Rubik’s Cube, and offers Braille fonts and numbers so that the blind can [...]
RIM Files A Patent For A Multi-tap Keyboard User Interface To Benefit The Visually Impaired
05/14/2010, While you might not hear that much news on the patents that RIM files, you can be sure that the company is busy churning out new ideas too and its latest patent filing with the USPTO describes a “multi-tap keyboard [...]
