Known as “the hand that makes a difference,” EvenPar Enterprises is a company that was launched by Michael Duncan to help people with a variety of disabilities do some of the things they couldn’t do before. Whether they need to hold a rake, wash a car, or play golf, the Lend-A-Hand can help them do […]
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The Huffington Post: Not one for letting technological barriers get in the way of his son’s health, an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Wake Forest University named Paul Pauca invented a communication app called Verbal Victor. Pauca, originally from Peru but now living in North Carolina, is also a father. The app shares the
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Making life easier for people in need is always good business, as one entrepreneur has discovered. The assistive devices started really by accident. My first handmade product was an iPad stylus made from a highly conductive fabric sock (knitted by my wife!) that can be wrapped around any pen holder (the Stylus Socks). They worked
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The increasing popularity of touchscreen phones has caused some problems for the visually impaired. However, the new BrailleTouch app hopes to fix that. In an app coming to the market relatively soon for both iPhone and Android, Georgia Tech researchers have reduced the price of realistically typing Braille on a smartphone from $1700 plus the
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PSFK.com reports that one of the winning entries at the 2010 Red Dot Concept Design is the “Haptic Braille” by Baek Kil Hyun. The mouse-shaped device scans any text, identifies the characters using optical character recognition technology and converts them into Braille on its surface, enabling the visually impaired to read any printed material, without
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Vanessa Heywood had the world at her feet, her talent as a actor, singer and dancer winning her roles in prestigious touring theatre productions such as West Side Story, Twelfth Night and Elvis: The Musical. But then she began to notice something was not quite right. To her disbelief, a brain scan confirmed she had
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Sgt. Neil Avant was on his way to a meeting in Baghdad when a man wearing women’s clothing and a bomb blew himself up. The injuries that he suffered were a enough to end his service with the army but they were not enough to break his entrepreneurial spirit reports The Los Angeles Times. Earlier
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The Roanoke Times: Margaret Ellis talks expressively and laughs often about her work and family, two parts of her life intertwined. “Running a business is nothing compared to raising Mary,” the Blacksburg mother said. Margaret, 35, started DevelopEase LLC, an education consulting and application-development company, last year. She focuses on helping children with disabilities learn
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David Shunkey is autistic and around the same time the recession hit he lost two jobs. Now he’s trying to launch his own business reports The Wall Street Journal. More mentally and physically challenged adults are looking to entrepreneurship as they get closed out of an exceptionally competitive job market, according to several organizations that
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Imagine if you could pick up Braille just by playing with a ball. Fast Company reports that a new conceptual toy by recent Pratt grad Danielle Pecora is designed precisely for that. Be-B is a ball that helps kids, blind or not, learn Braille through touch and sound. Looking a bit like a stiff Koosh
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