Scientists at North Carolina State University have developed a refreshable Braille display system that would allow the blind to read digital content on the Web. The Braille system, of course, allows ...

Only about 10% of blind people around the world can read Braille. One primary reason is the high cost of Braille displays. The cost is a result of their complexity and reliability – required to ensure ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) In order to make dynamic written content, for instance a news reader, available for blind or vision-impaired people, scientists have come up with various designs of sheet-type, ...

Researchers at the University of Michigan are working on a braille tablet that would display more than just lines of text. Thanks to the use of microfluidics, the tablet could display such complex ...

Scientists at the University of Michigan are working on a revolutionary display technology that could one day feature in a Kindle-style Braille tablet for the visually impaired. “Imagine having a ...

(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. Yosi-Bar Cohen, a ...

When most of us are surfing the Web we generally do it in much the same way we read a newspaper. We scan the entire page looking for information that interests us before focusing our attention on that ...

When Katherine (Katie) Cagen '14 was applying to Harvard, she made a new friend on campus who happened to be visually impaired. "I saw how much she relied on technology to be able to access her course ...