Technology
News and features covering the latest advancements in technology that are impacting optometry
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Kellogg’s plans to roll out cereal boxes with a code that provides playback labelling information to the smartphones of shoppers with sight loss
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Braille Bricks are being trialled in UK classrooms, with the sets to be distributed free of charge to select UK schools and institutions from 2020
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Today’s Google Doodle depicts a person with visual impairment using the invention
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The smart glasses are designed to enhance the vision of people with peripheral vision loss
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A range of disability-themed emojis have been included in an update that will launch later this year
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“For the last 20 years, I have had to wait for my husband to wake up to read me the newspaper. Now, as soon as he wakes up, I tell him about it”
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Royal National Institute of Blind People services director, David Clarke, talks with OT about the Orbit Reader 20
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Researcher reveals: “My mother is blind in one eye, and whenever I talk about my work, she says, ‘When are you going to print me a bionic eye?’”
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Scientists have developed a flexible synthetic retina from 2D materials