Hello students: For a limited time, you can obtain an individual membership to Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic (RFBD) for free and gain unlimited access to their collection of textbooks and other materials! For more information or to sign up, visit http://www.rfbd.org/membership-individual.htm -- Arielle Silverman President, National Association of Blind Students Phone: 602-502-2255 Email: nabs.president@gmail.com Website: www.nabslink.org
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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum monthly programs for people who are partially sighted blind and deaf. Admissions and programs are free. Contact Ruth Barry at rbarry@guggenheim.org.
---------------------------------------------------- Researchers at MIT developed a camera-like device that borrows the technology of a scanning ophthalmoscope. The portable seeing machine us fuve square inches and mounted on a tripod. A digital camera is attached to the top. The visual feed from the camera travels into the seeing machine to a LCD illuminated by light-emitting diodes. The visual data is then focused into a singke point that travels into the eye. Plans are under way to test the device at the Joslin Diabetes Center’s Beetham Eye Institute in Boston.