Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contact with the blind community indicates that many blind persons are unaware of the fact that the Science and Medicine sections of TIME are available to them on tape from Science for the Blind. This is true in spite of the fact that we have tried to notify the community through notices in Braille periodicals and by direct mail to our own mailing list. The blind people who receive the tapes have been enthusiastic...
...FULLER Associate Director Science for the Blind Bala-Cynwyd...
Curiously, yet another ABC première last week, Movie of the Week, led off with a plane crash. In this one, seven blind people survived, only to be done in by the tricky, pseudopsychological script. That disaster may or may not have been a harbinger of ABC's remaining 24 movies of the week, since they will come from many different producers. Generally, they will run cheaper (all 25 cost $16 million) and shorter (80 minutes without commercials) than conventional features. Films specially made for TV can develop into series, witness last season's Then Came Bronson...
...Opticon" (for Optical Tactical Converter) reflects an enlarged image of each letter onto a disk of light-sensitive transistors. The transistors, energized by the image, trigger a corresponding group of pins that vibrate in an outline identical to the printed letter. By lightly fingering the pins, the blind person can "see" the letter...
Linvill's idea for the probe-pin design came from a high-speed computer that printed its answers with electrically charged pins instead of solid typeface. When he found that the blind could be taught to recognize vibrating patterns, he built the first model of his machine. Next, he and two other researchers at Stanford, James D. Meindl and James C. Bliss, made the probe sensitive to the differences in such similar-shaped letters as lower case a, e, and o, and also adjustable for various print sizes. The portable, battery-operated machine was then given to Candy...