When I was a teenager, a professor my parents knew heard that I wanted to major in physics. Because I am blind, he told my parents that wouldn’t be possible: “Physicists,” he informed us, “have to be ...

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 ...

Blindness found me when I turned 60. For me, blindness was a mindless, faceless, voracious beast that consumed my sighted self. I emerged as a sightless shadow self and started to rebuild my life.

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 ...

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 ...