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Robert Harley of The Absolute Sound on Blind Listening Tests

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2008-06-04 02:42:58 by Editor in Audio Junkies
Image: HifiBooks.com I've long held the belief that the double-blind "ABX" tests often used to try and determine if there are differences between audio formats, amplifiers, etc. are fundamentally flawed. The roughly 50/50 results that always result supposedly show no audible differences between CD and high-res audio, or digital and analog...
 
Tags: blind, harley, robert harley, audio, digital audio, swedish radio, non-blind, audio formats, tests
 
 
 
 
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KNFB, Nokia Help the Blind See with Cell-Phone Tech

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2008-01-28 16:27:00 by Mark Hachman in Gearlog
At a press conference Monday morning, KNFB Reading Technologies and Nokia announced that the KNFB text-recognition system has been installed inside the Nokia N82 cell phone The partnership with Nokia is a step forward on the ongoing relationship of the KNFB technology, a partnership between inventor Ray Kurzweil and the National Federation of...
 
Tags: phone, reader, screen-reader packages, discrete reader, blind, mobile-phone carriers, nokia, knfb, cell phone
 
 
 
 
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The Bright-F Translation System for Color Blind

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2008-05-09 16:56:12 by Michael in Medgadget
This is a prototype device idea from designer Lifeng Yu, that promises to improve the lives of people with color blindness by empowering them Here's what one person at Yanko Design , an excellent design blog, tells Medgadget : As we know, blind ... cant see any thing including colors . Though they can feel the shape and material of the object...
 
Tags: blind, blind people, bright, people, common people, bright-f, color, colors, design
 
 
 
 
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The Internet is maddening for the blind

2008-04-18 15:48:19 by John Brownlee in Boing Boing Gadgets
 
There's a fascinating article over at Computer World about the difficulty the blind have using the Internet as web site design becomes increasingly sophisticated and image based. This is certainly enough to make me feel guilty about never bothering to fill in my ALT tags: "It can take a while to wade through a strange site -- it can be...
 
Tags: blind, blind user, blind computer users, blind users, obstacles computer world, computer world, web site design, web, struggle
 
 
 
 
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Electro-occular implants transform blind grandmas into NBA stars

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2008-05-05 14:12:33 by John Brownlee in Boing Boing Gadgets
Daily Tech has a great article up about the newest revisions of Second Sigh Vision's Argus electro-occular implant technology, which aims to partially restore sight to the blind The earliest trials in 2004 featured a 4x4 inch grid of electrodes to translate incoming light into electrical signals to be passed onto the brain, but Argus Mach II is...
 
Tags: blind, 4x4 inch grid, electrodes, restore sight, sight, bionic eyes impolants, sigh vision, daily tech, retinitis pigmentosa
 
 
 
 
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First Cell Phone that Reads to the Blind & Dyslexic

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2008-01-29 15:57:07 by Patrick Birmingham in Cell Phone Digest
K-NFB Reading Technology, Inc., a company combining the research and development efforts of the National Federation of the Blind and Kurzweil Technologies Inc. , today unveils an exciting product line that will revolutionize access to print for anyone who has difficulty seeing or reading print, including the blind and learning disabled The...
 
Tags: blind, text-to-speech conversion technologyall, text, blind users, users, reader enables users, reader, text-to-speech, combination reader
 
 
 
 
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Spice Mobile's Phone for the Blind

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2008-02-12 18:54:23 by Sascha Segan in Gearlog
At the Mobile World Congress trade show, I was lucky enough to run into Sonia Sharma from My Mobile , who has a job even better than mine: she's like me, but in India. I write about cell phones. She writes about cell phones that are completely transforming a nation of a billion people, many of whom don't have running water Both she and I were...
 
Tags: phone, blind, phone avoid, voice phone calls, low-cost phone, spice, blind people, voice-only phone, braille keypad
 
 
 
 
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Blind Japanese man creates vibrating Braille handset

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2008-04-08 19:17:19 by Will Park in IntoMobile
Raised Braille-bumps on handset keypads are good for dialing a phone number and other simple tasks, but it can be a little more demanding to tap out text messages or do anything more complex by feel alone. To help the blind get more out of their mobile phones, Nobuyuki Sasaki, a former Tsukuba University of Technology professor, and his team...
 
Tags: blind, guide blind people, blind cellphone users, blind people, mobile phone, phone, phone flasher, call alerts, apple iphone dummy
 
 
 
 
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NASA Astronomy Book for the Blind

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2008-01-16 20:18:47 by Michael in Medgadget
In what some may think is a strange move, NASA just published photo astronomy book for the blind. Using surface texture, the book lets the blind experience the universe, all while reminding the rest of us that visible light is only a tiny spectrum of what telescopes can see. "Touch the Invisible Sky" is a 60-page book with color images of...
 
Tags: book, visible, visible light, blind, 60-page book, light, photo astronomy book, x-ray light, blind experience