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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Submitted photo Badger graduate Doug Goist competes for the United States blind hockey team against Canada in 2024 during the 2024 International Blind Ice Hockey Series. Doug Goist doesn’t have your ...

A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics recently set out to investigate whether people who are blind gesture like sighted people when talking about the world, and how ...

Finally, there’s a new vision for addressing this common eye condition. Dry age-related macular degeneration slowly damages the macula, the part of the retina responsible for central vision.

Molly Burke wants you to judge her new book by its cover. Run your fingers over the raised dots. Notice the bold gold type, the strip of light across the close up of her face. “I’m blind, but I’m also ...