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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers at the University of Michigan are working on a braille tablet that would display more than just lines of text. Thanks to the use of microfluidics, the tablet could display such complex ...

In what can be seen as a revolutionary development for the blind or those with visual impairment, a New York-based teacher, Daniel Lubinar has come up with a unique tablet device specifically built ...

A refreshable Braille tablet "could make topics like science and math more easily accessible to the blind," said Signe Brewster at Technology Review. Borrowing from microfluids technology, researchers ...

Each summer, Stanford University invites students from around the United States to come up with innovative applications for computers. This year's winning team came up with a touchscreen keyboard for ...