Researchers at the University of Michigan are working on a braille tablet that would display more than just lines of text. Thanks to the use of microfluidics, the tablet could display such complex ...

In the last few months, most of the world’s population has shied away from touching as many public things as possible. Unfortunately, anyone with low vision who relies on Braille signs, relief maps, ...

Award supports continued development of a refreshable braille and tactile graphics display for blind people ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NewHaptics, an innovative tactile display ...

Research with tiny artificial muscles may yield a full-page active Braille system that can refresh automatically and come to life right beneath your fingertips. Research with tiny artificial muscles ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) In order to make dynamic written content, for instance a news reader, available for blind or vision-impaired people, scientists have come up with various designs of sheet-type, ...

Talking about the importance of Refreshable Braille Display (RBD), a device very useful to the visually impaired, on World Braille Day, Dr. Sam Taraporevala, executive director at Xavier’s Resource ...

Non-sighted computer users, on the whole, have not had access to the tremendous gains in computer interfacing that many of us have taken for granted. Largely restricted to braille innovations ...

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