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Today's news alerts:- Carnegie students conduct research for blind in Bangalore http://www.eyeway.org/?q=carnegie-students-conduct-research-blind-bangalore A group of students from US-based Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) are in India to conduct research projects to benefit the visually impaired under the university's summer internship programme. For the blind, chess provides light at the end of the tunnel http://www.eyeway.org/?q=blind-chess-provides-light-end-tunnel National Institute of Professionals (NIP), an educational centre for the blind and disabled students, hosts the second edition of All Bengal Chess Competition for the Blind early on Friday morning. An exhibition where you can see nothing! http://www.eyeway.org/?q=exhibition-where-you-can-see-nothing Dialogue in the Dark (DID), founded by Andreas Heinecke in 1988, comes to Hyderabad in India Leading the Blind: New Apps Find Ways to Assist Vision-Impaired People http://www.eyeway.org/?q=leading-blind-new-apps-find-ways-assist-vision-impa ired-people Smartphones can come in handy for blind or visually-impaired people, and researchers are working on developing a variety of different applications to assist them in tasks like walking, identifying colors and objects, and hailing cabs. Happy reading!! Eyeway Helpdesk Project Eyeway - A knowledge resource for living a fuller life with vision loss C/o Score Foundation, 17/107 L.G.F., Vikram Vihar, Lajpat Nagar - 4, New Delhi - 110024. India. Helpdesk:+91-11-460 70 380 (Monday to Friday 10am to 5pm) Website: <http://www.eyeway.org> www.eyeway.org Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
