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Zombie Contact Lenses Damage Teenager's Eye

10/30/2015

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Halloween tempts many to use dangerous lenses.

Leah Carpenter, 17, a Michigan high school senior, bought a $26 pair of colored contact lenses last weekend at a public market, USA Today reports. Now she is partially blind in her right eye.

“It was just for show. That was our theme for the day,”  she said. “I wasn’t thinking anything would go wrong.”

But the decorative lens scratched her cornea, causing severe pain and limiting her school and extracurricular activities.

Contact lenses are considered to be medical devices and are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. Selling them without a prescription is against the law.

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Deaf Woman Wins Landmark Lawsuit Against NYPD

10/29/2015

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Denied an interpreter, she was wrongly arrested and held for 24 hours.

Diana Williams has settled her lawsuit against New York City for $750,000, a sum her lawyers say is the largest ever deaf discrimination settlement for a single person, the Huffington Post reports.

Williams and her husband had called police to intervene in an altercation with a tenant using a video relay service, which should have alerted police to the fact that an interpreter would be needed.

Instead, when they arrived on the scene, the tenants were the only ones who could tell their side of the story and Williams was arrested.

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Blind Man Drives

10/28/2015

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88-year-old British man fulfills a lifelong dream.

John Cramond lost his sight as a young boy, BBC News reports, and never had a chance to get behind the wheel until last weekend.

He told local disability volunteer co-ordinator Bill Milven about his desire to have the experience of driving. Milven found a driving instructor with a dual control vehicle, and they hatched a plan to take Cramond to a war-time airstrip where he spent an hour behind the wheel.

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Deaf-Mute Indian Woman, Lost for 13 Years, Returns Home

10/27/2015

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Geeta was welcomed back to India by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Thirteen years ago, a girl wandered away from her family and somehow managed to cross the border into Pakistan. CNBC reports that during her exile she was cared for by a Pakistani foundation until she was finally able to communicate, by pointing at maps, that she was from India.

Her plight has been publicized because her story bears a weird resemblance to the plot of a current Bollywood movie.

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Cellphone Technology Used to Create Artificial Eye Lens

10/26/2015

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Lenses may restore poor eyesight, cure cataracts.

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postgraduate at the University of Leeds in the UK is developing a liquid crystal eye lens that could restore eyesight in middle-aged adults, Medical Daily reports.

Devesh Mistry has created implantable artificial lenses by manipulating liquid crystal, the same material found in smartphone and TV screens. The synthetic lens replaces the diseased one and also automatically adjusts its focus, directed by the eye's muscle movements.

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Building Boom Underway at California School for the Deaf

10/22/2015

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Riverside campus undergoing major overhaul.

The 60-acre campus of the California School for the Deaf has undergone some renovations over the past 50 years, but nothing like what's going on today, the Riverside Press Enterprise reports.

“This is the first major overhaul of the campus,” Scott Kerby, the school’s interim superintendent, told the Press Enterprise. “After 50 years you can only renovate so much.”

One of two state schools for the deaf, the Riverside campus was established in 1953 and serves 11 Southern California counties.

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Dragonflies Provide Model for Improving Human Eyesight

10/21/2015

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 Australian team applies insect model to bionic eyes.

In research published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, scientists have used a computer program mimicking dragonfly eyes to create a bionic eye for humans, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The eye would use “a retinal implant connected to a video camera to convert images into electrical impulses that will carry signals back to the brain.” 

The researchers, based at the University of Adelaide, also foresee using the technology in driverless cars. Steven Wiederman, the neurologist who heads the research team, says they chose to emulate vision in dragonflies vision rather than humans because it would take too long to unravel the complexities of human vision.
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3D-Printed Hair Clip Helps Deaf to "Hear"

10/20/2015

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Device is an alternative to hearing aids or implants.

It's called the Ontenna. It looks like a simple hair clip that lights up, but it actually is a powerful sensor that translates a wide variety of sounds into vibrations and pulsing lights, 3Dprint.com reports.

"Different types of sounds are translated into different types of vibrations, so Ontenna actually allows the wearer to experience sound, albeit in a completely different way than the hearing do. The clip picks up sounds between 30 decibels up to 90 decibels and translates them into 256 different variations of vibrations and light patterns where the rhythm, pattern and the loudness can all be conveyed to the wearer."

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1 Billion at Risk of Blindness by 2050, Study Claims

10/19/2015

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Kids are spending too much time indoors.

Short-sightedness (myopia) is reaching epidemic proportions, anew study warns, and nearly one billion people could go blind by 2050, according to researchers at the Brien Holden Vision Institute in Australia.

Health Newsline reports that around five billion people, or half the world’s population, will be myopic by the middle of the century.
Of the total myopia sufferers, up to one-fifth, or 1 billion, may be at significantly increased risk of blindness.

Professor Kovin Naidoo, the lead author of the study, says children should spend at least two hours a day playing outside. Parents "should also ensure children don’t spend too much time on electronic devices, such as tablets, mobile phones, electronic games, television and other activities which requires them to focus close up for long periods,” he advises.

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Amazon Agrees to Caption All Its Streaming Video

10/15/2015

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Deaf rights group forges a deal with the mega-retailer.

The National Association for the Deaf -- the same group that sued Netflix to force it to caption its video content -- has reached an agreement with Amazon without litigation, Ars Technica reports.

"Amazon has already captioned 100 percent of the video it offers through its Prime Video and has agreed to continue to do so. Under the deal with NAD, Amazon will move through its back-catalog content, captioning an additional 190,000 titles which weren't given captions by the content creators."

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