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How Does a Blind Teenage "Swatter" Get 11 Years in Jail?
Matt Weigman, "a fat, lonely blind kid," received an 11-year jail sentence at age 19 for using the phone service to harass and attack his enemies (including the FBI!). But how does a kid come to such a fate? More »Mug for the Blind Chimes When Full
I'm clumsy enough that pouring my first cup of coffee each morning becomes a potentially punishing trial of dexterity. So honestly, were I blind, I'd be forced to drink straight from the pot—unless this mug existed. More »A Blind Photographer (!)
After professional photographer Alex Dejong lost his sight three years ago, he thought his days of taking and editing photos was over. But the iPhone 3GS's VoiceOver feature, plus a few key apps, has given some of his abilities back. More »Braille E-Reader Concept Raises Dots with E-Ink
Braille books are mighty thick, so while I remain skeptical of standard e-book readers' utility, a braille version would make it much easier for the blind to carry books with them. More »Google Makes It Easy for Blind to Dial on Touchscreens
How could a blind person ever possibly dial on a touchscreen? Really, any ideas? Google engineers T.V. Raman and Charles Chen have developed a system that's so simple it's almost embarrassing. More »
Elderly Man Sees For First Time in 30 Years With Bionic Eye
A 73-year-old man was recently given vision again after being outfitted with a "bionic eye." After 30 years of darkness, he now can see enough to follow white lines on the road and sort socks. More »InVision Case Makes the iPhone Blind-Friendly, Defiantly Screenless
The screen-based controls and rich visuals that make a device like the iPhone an attractive option for deaf users aren't of much use to the visually impaired. By employing a combination of an embossed "Moon Type" alphabet casing, a custom home screen and a screenreading app, the InVision solution could (awkardly) provide most of the core functions of the iPhone, including almost bearable browsing, text input and music navigation, to the blind. More »Moshi Alarm Clock Will Only Shut Off If You Ask It Nicely
Hands-Free GPS Device for the Blind Could Make You a Superhero
Apple to Make iTunes 8 and iPod Completely Accessible to the Blind
B&D Messenger Helps the Blind Read SMS
Bright-F Clothes Scanner Lets The Blind Hear Colors
Did you know Daredevil's costume was supposed to be black, like the night, instead of bright flaming red? That's because Matt Murdoch is blind, and the bastard couldn't tell one material from another. Did you know I made this story up in order to introduce the Bright-F design, which scans clothing and speaks the color so you don't match lime green with puke brown. We have a hard enough time dressing ourselves as it is, so we could see this being a tremendous help to the visually impaired. You know, if it were real. [Yanko Design] More »Ford Blind Spot System Uses Radar to Save your Ass
White Stick for the Blind Gets Sensor Upgrade with "Tactile Wand"
SightMate Device Helps Partially-Sighted People and Colorblind
Although the SightMate looks like a pair of those video glasses, it actually improves the sight of people with poor eyesight. A two-megapixel camera with 3x zoom sits in the middle of the outer frame and feeds images to a double 640 x 480 display inside the glasses. More »Kurzweil Develops First Seeing-Eye Cellphone