The Official Blog of Project-Ray, the World's First Smartphone for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Thursday, April 3, 2014
Movies for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Besides
art, movies can also be another weekend activity for the blind and visually
impaired. Here’s a snippet of how movies can be accessible to non-sighted
movie-goers.
Video source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT5AsjzgIC4
Art for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Any
plans for the weekend? Southern Methodist University’s Meadows Museum has
brought art to the blind and visually impaired through touch, sound and taste.
Tactile versions of paintings, objects that resemble what’s drawn and music
that reflects the artwork’s era and place are some of the ways the museum uses
to help their non-sighted visitors appreciate the artworks on display. A multisensory
experience for all!
Read article here.
Read article here.
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
People Who Were Born Blind Visualize Numbers from Right to Left
People who are congenitally blind tend to count numbers
from right to left as they map the position of objects relative to themselves.
”Remembering and representing numbers is an important skill, and the foundation for mental maths. Visually impaired people are just as good, if not better at mathematics than sighted people - Georgian Maths Professor and Royal Society Fellow, Nicholas Saunderson as one famous example.”
Deemed the earliest discoverer of Bayes theorem, Saunderson may have been able to achieve this through his unconventional mental representation of numbers. A great example of how the blind view things differently, thereby creating or working in extraordinary ways.
Read article here.
”Remembering and representing numbers is an important skill, and the foundation for mental maths. Visually impaired people are just as good, if not better at mathematics than sighted people - Georgian Maths Professor and Royal Society Fellow, Nicholas Saunderson as one famous example.”
Deemed the earliest discoverer of Bayes theorem, Saunderson may have been able to achieve this through his unconventional mental representation of numbers. A great example of how the blind view things differently, thereby creating or working in extraordinary ways.
Read article here.
Blind People See the World from Another Angle
Researchers
from the University of Bath, in developing new solutions to facilitate operations
of daily sight-related activities by the blind, have found that those with no
visual experience at all view the world differently.
Read the article and watch this video for details.
Read the article and watch this video for details.
Video source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEa5XCrh95w
Monday, March 31, 2014
Blind But Not Without Vision
“…he had already gotten it through
his head that he couldn’t do these things because he didn’t have any limbs.”
A father recounts the preconceived limits his son imposed on himself, and how he showed his son that despite his physical disabilities, he can be like anyone else with a little improvisation. Similarly, innovative accessibility and assistive technology will enable the blind and visually impaired to lead their daily lives as a sighted person would. The blind can fulfill big dreams too.
Read the article and watch the video here
A father recounts the preconceived limits his son imposed on himself, and how he showed his son that despite his physical disabilities, he can be like anyone else with a little improvisation. Similarly, innovative accessibility and assistive technology will enable the blind and visually impaired to lead their daily lives as a sighted person would. The blind can fulfill big dreams too.
Read the article and watch the video here
Being Blind and a Burden
Living as a
blind person in a developing country is an entirely different experience from
that in the US or Europe. In India or Nepal, losing one’s sight entails total
dependency on someone as well as a loss of social standing and decision-making
authority. Probably the most important and scariest thought of all: becoming
blind means one is now a burden to the family.
“Technology may not do all the work, but it does create small wonders.” As with all assistive devices, we hope that the RAY smartphone will empower more people in developing countries who are blind or visually impaired.
Read article here.
“Technology may not do all the work, but it does create small wonders.” As with all assistive devices, we hope that the RAY smartphone will empower more people in developing countries who are blind or visually impaired.
Read article here.
Image source: http://www.cureblindness.org/world-blindness/
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