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Each year, most people put a couple health-related items on our list of New Year’s resolutions. Eat less. Exercise more. Go and get that long overdo physical. What some people fail to realize is that eye care is another important part of caring for your body. Many people don’t seek care for their eyes until something is wrong, which can lead to loss of sight, eye disease and other serious problems. Doctors rocommend these five resolutions for 2010: Scientists have developed an eye implant that allowed three blind patients to see shapes and objects within days of treatment in a trial and say the device could become routine for some kinds of blindness in five years. Experts described the study results as phenomenal and said the device, developed by German researchers, could eventually change the lives of up to 200,000 people worldwide who suffer from blindness due to a degenerative eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa. Vanda Pharmaceuticals Conducting Clinical Trials for Blindness and Non-24-Hour Sleep Wake Disorder. If you want to participate in the survey, please call toll-free 1-877-708-1936 Monday-Friday between 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM ET. Congratulations! BrailleWorks Blog was determined to be one of the best blogs to exude overall brilliance in 2010. And so, it has received our 2010 Top 30 Vision Impaired Blogs Award. The ratings are compared, and awards are given out to blogs in the 99% percentile (meaning only the top 1% of blogs receive awards). Designer Noam Klopper is aiming to help people who are blind or visually impaired find a more simple way to get around by introducing the Visually Impaired Assistant (VIA). The “VIA” Visually Impaired Assistant is a pair of hand-centric devices to make the day of a visually impaired person a whole lot easier. Blind Movie critic Jay Forry gives his Blindside Review of The Town; staring Ben Affleck, Rebessa Hall and Jeremy Renner. At a time when it seems like movie trailers give away the best parts of films, I don’t think the trailer of this movie gives it justice. This is a gripping film with emotional dialogue, engaging scenes, and most of all we have a real attachment to the characters. Ben Affleck’s acting is fantastic but even more impressive, was his direction of this movie. Since the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Hines VA Hospital has hosted 65 members of the armed forces who served in Iraq and Afghanistan – more than any of the nine other VA blind centers across the country. Since 2005, the influx has more than doubled the number of blind or visually impaired 20- to 39-year-olds who stay for weeks at a time or longer to learn important survival skills, from operating a stove to walking unfamiliar streets, such as the stretch in downtown Forest Park. “It gives individuals the self-esteem and confidence to take back their lives,” said Gerald Schutter, chief of the center. It’s not always easy for blind or visually impaired people to use mobile phones, but designer Nikko van Stolk has come up with a concept phone that might be able to solve the problem, dubbed the Tactile. Although I am blind, I can appreciate a good movie as well as sighted individuals. I rely more on a good story line than special effects. Based on the 1996 short story titled “Baster” by Jeffrey Eugeniges, is the charming romantic comedy The Switch staring Jennifer Aniston & Jason Bateman. The National Federation of the Blind’s Blind Driver Challenge-an innovative effort to create a nonvisual interface that empowers a blind person to operate an automobile-received the 2010 Application of the Year Award at the National Instruments Graphical System Design Achievement Awards ceremony held during the NIWeek annual conference in Austin, Texas. In response to a challenge issued by the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) , students and researchers at Virginia Tech – using National Instruments (NI) technology – developed a semi-autonomous vehicle that allows a blind driver to successfully navigate, control speed, and avoid collision while traversing a closed driving course. |
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