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Supreme Court Lets Lawsuit Claiming Domino’s Website Violates Americans With Disabilities Act Proceed

The Supreme Court declined to give Domino’s Pizza Inc. an out from a lawsuit arguing that its website is inaccessible to people with blindness, denying a petition on Monday that could have allowed the company to evade facing the plaintiff in court. Per Bloomberg Law, a prior ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for…

Tech Policy Tom McKay Oct 7

Tesla Is Blocking Its Employees From Accessing an Anonymous Social Network for Workplace Complaints

Blind is an anonymous social network that has been used by tech workers to speak freely about grievances related to the workplace, among other concerns. Thousands of Tesla employees have signed up for the service, but now the company is reportedly trying to suppress its workers from joining the network. Verdict reports that Tesla employees…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz Jun 4

Lego’s Newest Sets Leverage the World’s Most Popular Toy To Teach Kids Braille

A couple of years ago, design agency Lew’LaraTBWA created a set of Lego-like bricks that used the plastic stubs to recreate the patterns that make up the braille alphabet. It was such a clever way to help encourage blind or visually impaired children to learn braille that Lego is officially releasing its own Braille Bricks…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Apr 24

Harassment, Transphobia, and Racism: A Look Inside Blind’s Anonymous Chatting Forum for Google Employees

In early January, Google systems reliability engineer Liz Fong-Jones announced she was leaving the company after 11 years, leaving behind, by her account, a half million dollars in stock, to work at the startup Honeycomb.io. An outspoken advocate for inclusion and diversity, Fong-Jones quit citing dissatisfaction with leadership around ethics of products and working conditions.…

Tech News Jennings Brown Jan 31

Blind Says Security Lapse That Exposed User Data Was ‘Our Mistake’

A security lapse on Blind, an anonymous workplace platform branded as a way for employees to flag improper behavior, temporarily exposed sensitive user data, TechCrunch reported Thursday. While the company said it deleted the data stored on one of its servers after being alerted to the issue, the lapse may have left exposed users’ personal…

Privacy & Security Catie Keck Dec 21

Seeing a 20,000 Watt Light Bulb Light Up Is Totally Blinding

I don’t know what 1,000 suns actually looks like in real life, but I would imagine it’s probably something like lighting up this 20,000 watt light bulb to full, world-scorching power. It’s that eyeball-burning and -blindingly bright. Photonicinduction tested this 20kW Halogen light bulb that’s used for large scale film sets indoors—where it can flood…

Sploid Casey Chan Jul 18

Try Not to Smile While This Blind YouTuber Takes a Delightful Rollercoaster Ride

For the past four years, Tommy Edison has vlogged his experience as a blind man in a world full of people who can see. Some of these videos are revelatory, like when he explains how the blind use money, or what his dreams are like. Today he decided to find out what riding a rollercoaster…

Sploid Avery Ellis May 25

This Headset Uses Sound To Navigate Blind People Through Cities

Using substitute senses for visually impaired people isn’t a new idea — even putting aids into hi-tech glasses isn’t new. But this project takes things a step further, piping in relevant information straight into the wearer’s skull. The project is a collaboration between Microsoft, Future Cities Catapult, and the Guide Dogs charity, and it consists…

Tech News Chris Mills Nov 6

These Five Ideas for Smarter Cities Just Won Millions in Funding

Ever since he left his post as the ban-happy mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg has been very busy taking his urban revitalization show on the road. Today, his philanthropy announced the winners of his annual Mayors Challenge, with five bright ideas for cities addressing issues from aging to civic engagement. After focusing on…

Tech News Alissa Walker Sep 19

How a Blind Photographer Practices His Art

Brenden Borrellini has been deaf and blind his entire life. He’s also been an unstoppable explorer and student. He picked up a camera at an arts center one day on a lark, but the joke soon turned into a serious pursuit with beautiful results. Australia’s Open Tropical North brings us this mini documentary on Brendan’s…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich Jul 26

Watching a human navigate like a bat is impressive

Daniel Kish, who lost his eyesight to cancer, is now an expert in echolocation – the technique that a bat uses to navigate at night. This is why he is sometimes known as the real life Batman – although Daredevil would be more accurate. Using these skills Daniel is able to enjoy independence and freedom…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi May 6

These Smartshoes Help the Blind Navigate City Streets

Wearable technology is a pretty busy buzzword these days, but some of the coolest inventions take the idea well beyond some gadget that lets you read email on your wrist. Wearable technology can actually be life-changing for some people. Consider, for instance, what these shoes can do for the blind. The world’s first-ever smartshoe is…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Mar 4

A blind man tries to guess the color of scented markers

Tommy Edison, our favorite blind-since-birth YouTube-er, is back to give us yet another glimpse into a world where the mere concept of light is unfathomable. And this time, he’s doing it while sniffing markers. But he’s not inhaling a bunch of noxious fumes to get loaded, mind you; he’s sniffing each scented marker in an…

Sploid Ashley Feinberg Dec 23

How Braille Was Invented

Braille was invented by a nineteenth century man named Louis Braille, who was completely blind. Braille’s story starts when he was three years old. He was playing in his father’s shop in Coupvray, France, and somehow managed to injure his eye. Though he was offered the best medical attention available at the time, it wasn’t…

Tech News Emily Upton - TodayIFoundOut.com Nov 26

These Synthesia Glasses Help Blind People “See” Via Sonar

People who have been blind since a young age can sometimes learn to develop a sort of low-grade echolocation. This technique, used by the likes of Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Ronnie Milsap, and Ben Underwood, works much the same way as it does in bats and dolphins. But people who have just recently lost their…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jul 12

Crazy Brain Implants Give Lab Rats a Sixth Sense and Let Them “Touch” Light

It’s not every day that science and crazy brain implants lead to the generation of what is essentially a new sense, but it is that day today. Scientists from Duke University have found a way to make rats “feel” invisible infrared light and someday that same tech could give sight to the blind, or give…

Tech News Eric Limer Feb 14

How Blind People Use Instagram

Tommy Edison, the positively radiant blind film critic, is back to explain how a blind person uses everybody’s favorite instant photo sharing service: Instagram. He’s explained how he used his iPhone before and what color meant to him but his use of Instagram might be the most impressive thing yet. Reminder: Tommy Edison has been…

Tech News Casey Chan Jan 3

What Color Means to Blind People

Tommy Edison, the wonderful blind film critic who once showed us how he used an iPhone, has a new video describing something nearly impossible for blind people to understand: color. What’s great is that even though Edison doesn’t understand the concept of color, colors still have meaning to him. Watch him describe what red, blue,…

Tech News Casey Chan Dec 6

Tactile maps from an 1830s atlas for the blind

Braille wasn’t widely in use in the 1830s, but Samuel Gridley Howe, founder and president of the New England Institute for the Education of the Blind, wanted to develop an atlas that his students could read unaided by a seeing person. To that end, he created a specially embossed atlas that could be read by…

io9 Lauren Davis Jul 22

Self-Portrait Drawing Machine Lets the Hopelessly Unartistic Sketch Themselves

If your attempts at art usually end up looking more at home on the fridge than a fine gallery, you might want to see if artists Kyle McDonald and Matt Mets will let you use their wonderful Self-Portrait machine which doesn’t require a lick of talent. In fact, you don’t even need to keep your…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Jun 4

Blind

Supreme Court Lets Lawsuit Claiming Domino’s Website Violates Americans With Disabilities Act Proceed

Tesla Is Blocking Its Employees From Accessing an Anonymous Social Network for Workplace Complaints

Lego’s Newest Sets Leverage the World’s Most Popular Toy To Teach Kids Braille

Harassment, Transphobia, and Racism: A Look Inside Blind’s Anonymous Chatting Forum for Google Employees

Blind Says Security Lapse That Exposed User Data Was ‘Our Mistake’

Seeing a 20,000 Watt Light Bulb Light Up Is Totally Blinding

Try Not to Smile While This Blind YouTuber Takes a Delightful Rollercoaster Ride

This Headset Uses Sound To Navigate Blind People Through Cities

These Five Ideas for Smarter Cities Just Won Millions in Funding

How a Blind Photographer Practices His Art

Watching a human navigate like a bat is impressive

These Smartshoes Help the Blind Navigate City Streets

A blind man tries to guess the color of scented markers

How Braille Was Invented

These Synthesia Glasses Help Blind People “See” Via Sonar

Crazy Brain Implants Give Lab Rats a Sixth Sense and Let Them “Touch” Light

How Blind People Use Instagram

What Color Means to Blind People

Tactile maps from an 1830s atlas for the blind

Self-Portrait Drawing Machine Lets the Hopelessly Unartistic Sketch Themselves

‘Good Omens’ Season 3 Is Still Just One Episode, Despite Being Called That

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