News tagged with visually challenged
Researchers develop camera for the blind
Jan 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Elizabeth Goldring smiles as she shows a visitor photos she's taken — and can see — with her blind eye.
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Health insurance status associated with frequency of eye care visits
Mar 09, 2009 |
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Individuals with no or inconsistent health care coverage appear less likely to regularly seek eye care, even if they are visually impaired, according to a report in the March issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the ...
Feeling the way: Robotic device can help visually impaired people
Nov 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For many people, it has become routine to go online to check out a map before traveling to a new place. But for blind people, Google maps and other visual mapping applications are of little ...
Vitamin B and folic acid may reduce risk of age-related vision loss
Feb 23, 2009 |
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Taking a combination of vitamins B6 and B12 and folic acid appears to decrease the risk of age-related macular degeneration in women, according to a report in the February 23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
Schools shun Kindle, saying blind can't use it
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Nov 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Amazon's Kindle can read books aloud, but if you're blind it can be difficult to turn that function on without help. Now two universities say they will shun the device until Amazon changes the setup.
Study examines how much is too much visual information when it comes to learning
Oct 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It’s been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. But with advances in computer graphics capabilities, more recent cognitive theory related to multimedia learning suggests that very ...
MIT 'seeing machine' offers hope to blind
May 23, 2006 |
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An MIT poet has developed a small, relatively inexpensive "seeing machine" that can allow people who are blind, or visually challenged like her, to access the Internet, view the face of a friend, "previsit" ...
Mount Sinai first in nation to ablate atrial fibrillation using new visually-guided balloon catheter
Sep 18, 2009 |
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Physicians at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York became the first in the U.S. to ablate atrial fibrillation using a visually-guided laser balloon catheter. The procedure was performed September 15 by Vivek Y. Reddy, ...
'Forza Motorsport 3' for Xbox 360 is revving up
Aug 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The next installment of Microsoft's flagship racing franchise won't offer any clunkers.
Intel CEO: 'Internet Technologies to Expand Limits of What's Possible'
Nov 06, 2008 |
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During a speech today at the Web 2.0 Summit, Intel Corporation President and CEO Paul Otellini described how the Internet will continue evolving, making businesses more collaborative and competitive globally. He also highlighted ...
US to reconsider species protection for wolverines
Jun 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service intends to reconsider its decision that denied wolverines protection under the Endangered Species Act.
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