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WATCH: You've Never Seen Baseball Played Like This

HooplaHa | Posted 05.17.2013 | Sports
HooplaHa

With baseball season starting up everyone is bringing out their bats and gloves, especially The Long Island Bombers. The Bombers are a group of baseball enthusiasts and athletes from New York, that just happen to be blind and visually impaired.

WATCH: Blind Biker Shows Off Amazing Tricks

The Huffington Post | Will Wrigley | Posted 04.24.2013 | DC

Matt Gilman, who you can see in this video performing amazing tricks on a bicycle, lost his vision in 2004, due to complications attributed to Type 1 ...

The MPAA, Disney and Blind People: Data Point for Campaign Finance Reform and the Weakness of Human Character

James Love | Posted 04.24.2013 | Politics
James Love

On Monday, I published a 4300-word account of efforts by the MPAA and its members to undermine negotiations for a new UN treaty on copyright exception...

Disney, Viacom and Other MPAA Members Join Book Publishers to Weaken a Treaty for the Blind

James Love | Posted 04.23.2013 | Politics
James Love

The World Blind Union and its members and supporters in the negotiation are now concerned that that Obama Administration and the European Commission are making demands that will render the treaty far less useful, or even derail the negotiations entirely.

Video Game Helps The Blind Navigate Buildings

Reuters | Posted 04.01.2013 | Technology

By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) - A video game that uses a computer-generated layout of a building can help to prepare the blind ...

Not By Bread Alone: A Deaf-Blind Theater Troupe Makes Its U.S. Premiere

Seamus McKiernan | Posted 04.03.2013 | Arts
Seamus McKiernan

When is the last time you saw a play with a blind actor? What about a deaf-blind actor? How about an entire cast of deaf-blind actors maneuvering the stage with precision and poise as they dance and act -- and bake bread? That's the premise of Not By Bread Alone.

'My Drunk Kitchen' Star to Launch Global Tour Thanks to Over 175k in Fan Donations

Shira Lazar | Posted 04.03.2013 | Home
Shira Lazar

Hannah Hart is taking her wildly popular "My Drunk Kitchen" show on the road, and has already raised over $175,000 for her new travelogue show, "Hello Harto!" on Indiegogo.

Not by Bread Alone: Play Dough Craftsmanship

Danny Groner | Posted 03.25.2013 | New York
Danny Groner

Not by Bread Alone calls on its 11 deaf and blind actors to demonstrate what they can do in the kitchen, where they bake loaves of bread, on an open stage full of imagination and ambition, and beyond.

Eyes of the Blind Transmit Messages to the Brain Subconsciously

Dr. Douglas Fields | Posted 02.10.2013 | Science
Dr. Douglas Fields

Do you believe that the mind can detect things beyond the conscious realm of sensory perception? Can the blind "see" without vision? A new study provides strong support for these intriguing questions.

Blind Insight: Falling Down Never Felt So Good

Monique Zimmerman-Stein | Posted 12.26.2012 | Politics
Monique Zimmerman-Stein

We came home after five hours of canvassing our neighborhood tired and wet, but elated. Happy with the knowledge that I was able to break my own mental barrier from my still-new blindness and content with the assurance that I know I will be doing it again.

Blind Man Tasered By Cops Who Mistook White Cane For Samurai Sword

Posted 10.17.2012 | World

A blind man from Lancashire, England, was Tasered by police last Friday after law enforcement officers mistook his white cane for a samurai sword, rep...

How Do Blind People Count Cash?

AP | JOSH LEDERMAN | Posted 10.09.2012 | Home

WASHINGTON -- A new, government-funded cellphone app will help the blind and those with visual impairments count their cash. Those with Android devic...

What I Learned About Racing An Ironman Blind

Charles Scott | Posted 11.06.2012 | Healthy Living
Charles Scott

Competing in an Ironman triathlon is a challenge. But imagine doing the race without being able to see. Charlie Plaskon, 69 years old and legally blind since birth, has completed eight Ironman races. His most recent was last month's inaugural New York City Ironman, where I served as his guide.

Blind Girl Denied Use Of Cane; Museum Says It Was A Misunderstanding

The Huffington Post | Katherine Bindley | Posted 09.03.2012 | Parents

A museum in New Hampshire has apologized for refusing to allow an 8-year-old blind girl named Abby Duffy to use her white cane inside the museum, WMU...

Fighting For His Vision: First Time Filmmaker Races Against Blindness

Turnstyle | Posted 10.02.2012 | Impact
Turnstyle

By: Noah J. Nelson First time filmmaker Jack Marchetti doesn't know how long it will be until he loses his sight. "The main problem I have is just n...

Woman, 96, Dies Moments Before 10th Rappel For Charity

Posted 07.31.2012 | Impact

Gertrude Painter dedicated herself to charity until the very end. The 96-year-old visually impaired philanthropist from West Sussex, England, suff...

Zach Carter

Obama Reps Stall Rights Treaty For The Blind

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 07.26.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Delegates from the United States and the European Union have managed to delay a key human rights treaty for the blind until at least 201...

Zach Carter

Obama Blocks Major Treaty For the Blind

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 07.23.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is blocking the creation of an international treaty designed to protect access to books and reading material fo...

An App For The Blind

Reuters | Natasha Baker | Posted 09.21.2012 | Technology

By Natasha Baker TORONTO (Reuters) - Whether it is getting off a bus or reading a menu, a new app aims to make life easier for the blin...

Visually Impaired Teen Creates Braille Menus (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Hannah Orenstein | Posted 07.23.2012 | Teen

Approximately 11 million Americans are visually impaired, but when was the last time you saw a Braille menu in a restaurant? This summer, 15-year-old ...

You'll Never Guess What These Glasses Do

The Huffington Post | Sara Gates | Posted 06.15.2012 | Technology

While this may not be the first concept design claiming to help the blind see, it is by far the most visionary -- excuse our pun. Designed by Xu Guang...

Solar-Powered Implants Could Help The Blind

The Huffington Post | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.16.2012 | Green

For anyone who needed further evidence for the benefits of solar power: A new device being developed at Stanford University relies on solar-powered im...

Flasher Exposes Self at Bookstore for the Blind

Tony Phillips | Posted 07.03.2012 | Weird News
Tony Phillips

For all we know there is now, on the loose, somewhere in the Philadelphia suburbs, the world's most dysfunctional exhibitionist.

New Technology Allows Deaf-Blind People To Send Texts

Posted 04.22.2013 | Science

By: InnovationNewsDaily Staff Published: 04/07/2012 09:45 AM EDT on InnovationNewsDaily So far the products produced using remote-touch technolo...

Serving As A Marathon Guide

Charles Scott | Posted 01.13.2012 | Home
Charles Scott

Running the marathon with Dan felt like a celebration of optimism, of grit and resilience. He thanked me for serving as his guide, but I experienced the event as his gift to me.