Researchers at the IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology) developed an acoustic virtual reality-based archery game, enabling blind people to experience for the first time this type of technology, ...
Jan 4, 2022
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As it is common experience, our senses do not work in complete isolation from the others: sight helps listening (and this is maybe why it is difficult to understand people when they speak with their mask on) but can also ...
Dec 6, 2021
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The "white cane" that many blind people rely on for navigating the world hasn't been upgraded in a century, but researchers are reporting progress on a "robo-cane" they hope will modernize the assistive device.
Sep 16, 2021
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People born blind have never seen that bananas are yellow but Johns Hopkins University researchers find that like any sighted person, they understand two bananas are likely to be the same color and why. Questioning the belief ...
Aug 16, 2021
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Known as nature's own sonar system, echolocation occurs when an animal emits a sound that bounces off objects in the environment, returning echoes that provide information about the surrounding space.
Jun 2, 2021
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A team of EPFL engineers has developed technology that could partially restore vision in blind people. The study is published in Communications Materials.
Mar 5, 2021
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Many COVID vaccination registration and information websites at the federal, state and local levels violate disability rights laws, hindering the ability of blind people to sign up for a potentially lifesaving vaccine, a ...
Mar 2, 2021
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A collaborative study led by the University of Otago has shown that COVID-19 containment and elimination efforts have become moralised. As a result, people are more likely to accept collateral damage from these efforts, such ...
Dec 10, 2020
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Restoration of vision in blind people through a brain implant is on the verge of becoming reality. Recent discoveries at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN) show that newly developed high-resolution implants ...
Dec 3, 2020
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This work is part of a strand of research being undertaken by the Department of Optics of the University of Granada (UGR) in Spain to analyze the effectiveness of various aids marketed as ostensibly improving color vision ...
Nov 6, 2020
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