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In-Floor Wayfinding: Textured Tiles Guide Blind Client Through New Home

To address the needs of a visually impaired client, architects in Thiene, Italy, worked from the start to integrate a custom wayfinding system into the structure and layout of this home, ...

Hands to the Wall: Chile Unveils Tactile Street Art for the Visually Impaired

In Santiago, Chile, six murals offer visually impaired people the chance to experience large-scale works of street art by Chilean artists through touch panels, braille and audio descriptions. ...

Touchable Typeface: Ingenious Fonts Combine Visual & Braille Characters

Braille type is often included as alongside conventional letters, but "Braille Neue" typesets blend both visible and tangible characters in the same space, creating hybrid alphabets that anyone ...

Please Touch the Art: Tactile 3D Portraits Let the Blind See Themselves

“My nose isn’t that big!” protests portrait subject George Wurtzel as he runs his hands over his own image, rendered in paint on thousands of screws raised from a wooden board in a relief ...

Visionary Inventions: 13 Bold Designs for the Blind

Those of us who aren't visually impaired take for granted simple everyday actions like navigating unfamiliar places, reading bus schedules, telling the time or distinguishing between spices when ...

Blind Ambitions: 11 Assistive Ideas for the Visually Impaired

Technology to assist visually impaired people is progressing far beyond the dog and cane. These technology concepts  - all of which are still in the design stages and not available for purchase ...

Touching Art: Raised Prints of Famous Paintings for the Blind

Enabling the visually impaired to quite literally put their hands on priceless artworks, this unique exhibition allows blind people to experience works like the Mona Lisa for the first time. An ...

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