AI mirrors help blind people see themselves for the first time in major breakthrough

Seeing themselves has been a dream for blind people for centuries, but now, this reality is possible. An Indian-origin CEO's ...
Business Wire

Guide Dogs for the Blind Partners With Be My Eyes to Give Real-Time Video Assistance to Alumni via Innovative App

SAN RAFAEL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Guide Dogs for the Blind (GDB) has announced a new partnership with Be My Eyes, an innovative app that provides real-time video assistance to individuals who are ...
Mashable

AI backpack concept gives audio alerts to blind pedestrians

When Jagadish Mahendran heard about his friend's daily challenges navigating as a blind person, he immediately thought of his artificial intelligence work. "For years I had been teaching robots to see ...
Arizona State Press

Blind ASU student prepares sight assistance program for Clinton Global Initiative University 2014

The doctors told him his blindness was temporary, a result of swelling in the brain. But after a few months of frustrated coping, Bryan Duarte went to see an optometrist. “He told me I would be blind ...
WBAY

WI families concerned after potential loss of funding for deaf-blind technical assistance program

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - Over 100 families throughout the state are concerned about how a potential loss in funding could impact their deaf-blind children. Those children are a part of the Wisconsin ...