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...Browsers The Talking Net Last year it webcast the Paralympics live from Sydney, this year it's adding its voice to the Web - literally. New York-based WeMedia, a leading provider of information and services for disabled people, has launched a talking Web browser designed to help blind and partially sighted Net users. The WeMedia browser has large buttons and changeable color contrast, and allows key commands to ease navigation - avoiding the need to select small icons with a mouse. A free version is available at www.wemedia.com...
Schmakel's blind-eye policy was fair to both teams, but it would have made for a more interesting game with a couple more odd-man situations...
...SENSORY SUBSTITUTION Seeing in Tongues Blind people may one day be able to read computer screens and recognize faces - with their tongues - thanks to a device developed at the University of Strasbourg. The Tactile Vision Substitution System (TVSS), a 3-sq cm pad that rests on the tongue, translates images from a digital camera into electrical stimulation, which forms patterns on the tongue corresponding to the shape of the image. The team wants to implant the tvss in a dental retainer that sends signals to a digital camera mounted on a pair of glasses...
...some Harvard workers, however, Harvard is blind to the necessity of secure, adequately compensated employment and standard employment benefits. According to information assembled by Harvard's living wage campaign, between 1,000 and 2,000 of the workers who ensure Harvard's daily functioning do not receive a living wage...
...What's important to realize is that these villages are being shelled from Tetovo, which has no direct view of the villages. The Macedonian forces are firing artillery over a blind ridge. They couldn't see what they were firing at; it was a pretty violent affair...