A Bay Area company believes a little glass and some cutting-edge technology could offer a new kind of world view to visually impaired people. Kevin Chao of Oakland, who's been blind since the age of ...

That moment when someone mentions a blind person, what image pops into your mind? Probably someone in dark glasses navigating with a white cane, completely unable to perceive the world around them.

When inventor and scientist Josh Miele was 4 years old, a neighbor poured sulfuric acid on his head, burning and permanently blinding him. In his new book Connecting Dots: A Blind Life, Miele ...

As a sophomore at South Carolina State University, Shawn Callaway’s life changed in an instant when a stray bullet—accidentally fired by a fellow student playing with a gun—struck him in the temple ...

Visual assistance system The wearable system uses intuitive multimodal feedback to assist visually impaired people with daily life tasks. (Courtesy: J Tang et al. Nature Machine Intelligence ...

Blue was the last color Jose Lopez Masso ever saw. He remembers the interior of a Berlin taxi. The blue-ish shades around him in the hospital. Then the world running together, like paint mixing, until ...

As Jamie Ward admired the blues and oranges of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, he felt overcome with emotion. But the 61-year-old wasn’t just moved by seeing this world-famous painting in real-life. Just six ...

Find today’s readings here. “I think there’s an assumption that, if any blind person were asked the open-ended question, ‘What do you want?’ they would, of course, say they want to see.” This is what ...