In a two-month summer course on high-performance computing, promising undergrads compete to create innovative applications. This summer's winner developed a touchscreen Braille writer that stands to ...

One group of people has traditionally been left out of our modern tablet revolution: the visually impaired. Our slick, button-less touchscreens are essentially useless to those who rely on touch to ...

Most digital Braille devices are built on the assumption that the legally blind already know how to write in the format -- if they don't, they're often forced back to the analog world to learn. PDT ...

It wasn't all that long ago that we saw a student turn a tablet into a Braille writer, and now some researchers from Georgia Tech have done the same thing for smaller touchscreens, too. The Yellow ...

Undergraduate student, Adam Duran, made excellent use of his time at Stanford University, where he attended a two-month summer course organized by the Army High-Performance Computing Research Center ...

To help provide a low-cost communication tool for the blind, undergraduates at the Johns Hopkins University invented a lightweight, portable Braille writing device that needs no electronic components.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Teacher Jennifer Martinez works with Head Start students Arya, left, Baruc and Noah at the Blind Children's Center in Los Angeles.

Children who will learn braille start preparing with pre-braille. They may learn to track lines and identify shapes, become familiar with touching braille in books and work on finger strengthening ...