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Researchers at the University of Bristol have been busy designing a cool new helmet to help the visually impaired who find it difficult to perfect the system of clicks and whistles. The Navigation Helmet has been programmed to automatically transform a map of the surrounding area into sound. This means that all sort of real-life imagery of local obstacles [...]

Life for the visually impaired isn’t minus the challenges but humanity and technology work together to make as many things far easier than they really are for these special people. Sang-hoon Lee and Youn-bum Lim are two such designers driven by the force to create something that is clever ad extremely helpful for friends who cannot see. Hence, [...]

Tactile technology is developing digital devices that suit the needs of the visually impaired. The tactile displays make digital data to be felt, as a result the blind too can access the internet, maintain secure credit card details and even click and store pictures. Let’s take a look at some of these cool gadgets. 1. Touch Sight Camera: This [...]