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Electrical Engineering students innovate Smart Glasses for Visually Impair
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
Chandigarh [India], August 17: Simplifying lives of visually impaired people, two Chandigarh University students, Amit Ranjan and Simran Thakur, have developed first-of-its-kind Smart Glasses which will help visually impaired people in avoiding accidents by ensuring hassle-free obstacle d
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Braille ballot papers being prepared for polling day in Chandigarh
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Braille ballot papers are being prepared following instructions from the Election Commission of India to enable visually impaired people to take part in the election process and cast their votes for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in Punjab and Chandigarh.
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Bhutan youngsters create electronic Dzongkha Braille for the visually impa
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Initially, it was a college project, however, the innovation of young people has evolved into a passion to help the visually impaired people in reading and writing Dzongkha.
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World Braille Day 2023: Know everything about Louis Braille's birth annive
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
World Braille Day is marked on January 4 to honour Louis Braille, the founder of the Braille system, and to recognise his contributions towards the welfare of visually impaired people.
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Adult brain may partially recover from genetic blindness: Study
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
California [US], October 15 (ANI): A new understanding of how some visually impaired people may come to see provides a new perspective on the brain's potential. Researchers from the University of California, Irvine School of Biological Sciences and the School of Medicine collaborated to unco
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Chandigarh University student invents AI-based Smart Stick 'Netra' to make
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], July 29 (ANI/PRNewswire): According to a report by the World Health Organization, there are currently 28.5 Crore people in the world who are visually impaired. Among those, 3.90 Crore people are blind whereas 24.60 Crore people are living with low vision or visu
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India's first radio channel for visually-impaired people 'Radio Aksh' laun
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Nagpur (Maharashtra) [India], April 17 (ANI): Country's first-ever radio channel for the visually impaired, named 'Radio Aksh' has been launched in Nagpur, with the Blind Relief Association Nagpur and Samdrushti Kshamata Vikas Avam Anusandhan Mandal (Saksham) serving as the pioneers of the c
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Assam boy designs sensor-enabled smart shoe for the visually impaired
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Guwahati (Assam) [India], April 3 (ANI): In a bid to help visually impaired people, a young boy from Assam's Karimganj district has designed a sensor-enabled smart shoe.
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Being Sevak Charitable Trust hosts the National Awards function to recogni
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], October 20 (ANI/PNN): Mumbai-based 'Being Sevak Charitable Trust, a non-government organization (NGO) working for the upliftment and development of visually impaired people, underprivileged, and poor children, organized the national awards function titled 'Rasht
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Braille version of Bhagwad Gita, Mahapuran released in Odiya language
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], August 29 (ANI): In a first, a charitable trust in Bhubaneswar released a Braille version of Shrimad Bhagawat Gita and Shrimad Bhagawat Mahapuran in Odiya language for visually impaired people on Saturday.
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Pune Restaurant employs specially-abled persons to serve customers
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], March 25 (ANI): A restaurant in Pune is the first of its kind which employs specially-abled persons to cater to its customers. The employees take orders from customers using sign language.
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Brain implants might soon help restore rudimentary vision for blind people
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Amsterdam [Netherlands], December 6 (ANI): Restoring vision for visually impaired people might soon be a reality with the help of brain implants, due to recent discoveries at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), which were published in the journal Science.
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