Humans and Technology HoloLens can now guide the blind through complicated buildings The headset’s ability to map a space and talk people through it may prove more important than the mixing-imagery-with-reality stuff. by Rachel Metz 2018-05-29T12:39:00-04:00
MIT News feature MIT Students Invent Simple Device that Makes Printed Text Accessible to the Blind After a building a rough prototype in a day of hacking, a team of undergrads is developing a low-cost handheld device that translates printed text to Braille. by Raleigh McElvery, SM ’17 2017-04-25T12:00:00-04:00
Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Opens Up New Ways to Help People with Disabilities Software that can understand images, sounds, and language is being used to help people with disabilities such as deafness and autism in new ways. by Tom Simonite 2017-03-23T13:00:00-04:00
Connectivity This $500 Tablet Brings Words to Blind Users’ Fingertips The first of its kind, the device will include a touch screen and 14-line Braille display. by Rachel Metz 2017-01-12T00:00:00-05:00
