On January 4, the world celebrates Louis Braille, the visionary who created a tactile system of reading and writing that ...

Louis Braille was only 16 years old when he developed a sophisticated system of raised dots to allow the blind to read. Six dots on two parallel lines – Braille may seem like a simple invention, but ...

World Braille Day is celebrated on 4th January, serving as a symbol of honour for the Braille system that has helped educate the visually impaired since several decades. January 4 every year is ...

Braille was first invented as a way for soldiers to communicate with each other in secret without using lights or sounds BRAILLE is a writing system designed to allow the blind and visually impaired ...

Few inventors have had such a positive effect on so many lives as Louis Braille, the remarkable educator, innovator and advocate for the blind. Braille was born about 20 miles east of Paris in ...

In 2020, the Lego Foundation began distributing its Braille bricks for free to organizations dedicated to the education of children with visual impairments. As of Sept. 1, 2023, others can now ...

World Braille Day, observed on January 4th every year, is an important day to celebrate the life and work of Louis Braille, the inventor of the Braille system, and to recognize the importance of ...

KALAMAZOO -- Scott Davert is like a lot of other students at Western Michigan University -- he can't live without his PDA. He uses his to download books, to listen to MP3s, to check his e-mail and ...

In an effort to be more inclusive, Lego is rolling out a first-of-its-kind set designed to help those with vision disabilities learn to read. The company said this month that it will make Braille ...

An "artificial eye" is still a long ways off, but researchers have made the low-resolution devices now available useful in a new way. Instead of trying to replace vision entirely, they only "translate ...