Gaining Sight After Years of Blindness Takes Time. Visual areas of the brain need to learn to organize and interpret sensory ...

Shahin Alam is helping hundreds to master tech. But he felt like he was ‘living in a grave’ when typhoid first took his ...

Unfortunately, I have been diagnosed many years back with Retinal Dystrophy ( genetic mutation ). The condition has no treatment available and it decreased my vision constantly, leading to my ...

Eye patches aren’t just for pirates and villains. In Elio, Disney/Pixar introduces a young hero with a patch – and breaks old ...

Incoming information from the retina is channeled into two pathways in the brain's visual system: one that's responsible for ...

Christian Frantz, who is blind and has autism and ADHD, attended a career fair designed to show blind and low-vision high school students that they belong in STEM fields. “My message to anyone with ...

Next-gen AI glasses help blind navigate freely without canes or guide dogs Romanian startup .lumen is transforming mobility for the visually impaired with innovative glasses that combine self ...

Getting access to prerelease versions of a platform that you know is going to sell by the million is a great opportunity to get a jump on developing a new open-source product. But it's no guarantee of ...

Background To assess the prevalence and causes of vision impairment in North Africa and the Middle East (NAME) from 1990 to 2015 and to forecast projections for 2020. Methods Based on a systematic ...

Find My Things, developed by members of the Microsoft Research Teachable AI Experiences (Tai X) team with the help of a citizen design team they assembled for the project, is a teachable AI tool ...

In India alone, untreated vision loss costs the country an estimated $54 billion annually. And yet, the solution is often as simple as a $50, 15-minute cataract surgery or a pair of prescription ...