Technology benefiting the visually impaired has been making great strides in recent years, with devices like the GPS and smartphone-equipped BlindSpot cane and clever Braille iPad case concept design.

Elon Musk, on Sunday, emphasized Tesla Inc.’s TSLA Cybercab robotaxi accessibility features for blind users, such as Braille ...

MAPLE PLAIN, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The latest deserving idea to receive the Proto Labs Cool Idea! Award, is a Braille labeler by Silicon Valley-based innovation laboratory 6dot. The labeler aims to ...

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It's certainly not the first Braille label printer we've seen, but Ted Moallem's Braille-It Labeler does bring notably unique element to the table — namely, "sightless construction." Presented at this ...

Blind people have been long overlooked when it comes to social advancement and technological innovation, and Moallem’s labeler offers a simple, affordable solution that will have its largest impact in ...

A team of MIT students have come up with a prototype device that is small and easily portable, can produce the entire panoply of Braille characters, and can be relatively easily loaded and operated by ...

Alcampo, the Spanish subsidiary of French retailer Auchan, is to introduce labelling in Braille on a wide range of its own label products, joining Auchan's French, Portuguese and Brazilian stores in ...

Impressive advances for the blind abound, but a MIT design team has taken blind technology back to basics with the 6dot Braille Labeler, a tool that prints labels in Braille. The labeler, which was ...

Janay Reece came back home to Baltimore to join WJZ in August 2023. Before coming back to the Charm City, Janay was a morning anchor and reporter for WDBJ7 in Roanoke, VA. She joined the WDBJ7 morning ...