Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tablets for the blind leave a lot to be desired, so the University of Michigan has conjured up a pneumatic Braille tablet that ...

Scientists at the University of Michigan are working on a revolutionary display technology that could one day feature in a Kindle-style Braille tablet for the visually impaired. “Imagine having a ...

Researchers at the University of Michigan recently unveiled a new Braille-enabled prototype tablet that makes it possible for those with vision problems to read text on a full display . The tablet ...

Suppose you had a tablet that only displayed one line of text at a time. It would be pretty frustrating, but it's a limitation that blind users of braille-displaying devices are faced with constantly.

A Boston nonprofit is putting the finishing touches on the world’s first affordable “tablet” for the blind, an Android-based device that is part of an innovative campaign to turn around a little-known ...

While apps like Siri and dictation software might be helpful for tablet users who are visually impaired, those services can only go so far — especially if you want to do something like read a ...

Signing up for college classes can be intimidating, from tuition, textbook requirements, to finding an engaging professor. Imagine signing up online, but you cannot use your monitor. We wager that ...

Can a tablet designed for those who can see become accessible to those who can't? A research group at Stanford has created a Braille writer that has the potential to revolutionize a stagnant market.

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 ...

Tablets for the blind leave a lot to be desired, so the University of Michigan has conjured up a pneumatic Braille tablet that stands to be more cost effective and user friendly than any other ...