visually impaired
Accessibility: 3D Printed Tactile Pregnancy Test for Visually Impaired Women
Taking a pregnancy test, and learning the results, is an incredibly private, personal moment, no matter what result you’re hoping to get. Unfortunately, this isn’t the case if you’re visually…
3D Printed Plastic Geoboards Teach Visually Impaired Students about Geometry
Geometry is the branch of mathematics that relates to angles, geometric shapes, lines and line segments, and rays, and you use geometry concepts to measure lengths and areas of 2D…
See3D Uses 3D Printing to Connect Visually Impaired and Fully Sighted People
When Caroline Karbowski was a child, she decided that she wanted to learn Braille so that she could read in the car without getting carsick. She quickly found that it…
3D Printing Brings Modena Cathedral to Fingertips of Visually Impaired
3D printing has proved time and again to be an excellent resource for sharing visual material with people who cannot see it. Printing 3D versions of paintings, providing sculptural versions…
IFB Solutions Signs Contract with Luxexcel for Its 3D Printing Ophthalmic Lenses Platform
By now, Luxexcel is pretty well synonymous with 3D printed optics – it’s said to be the only company in the world that has the ability to 3D print ophthalmic lenses without…
3D Printing to Learn: Winners Announced for Envision the Future Design Challenge
After the stunning success of the Within Reach 3D Design Challenge brought about impressive winning designs in 2016, e-NABLE, MatterHackers, and Pinshape wanted to keep going, and see what would happen with…
Envision the Future: Design a 3D Printed Educational Model for the Visually Impaired
Last year, a large team effort was launched by the 3D printing community to help one woman. The Within Reach 3D Design Challenge, led by MatterHackers, e-NABLE, Pinshape and Ultimaker, challenged…
3D Printed Tactile Books Allow Visually Impaired Children to Experience Stories
Braille has been around since 1824, when blind Frenchman Louis Braille invented the system of raised dots that would allow blind people to read with their fingertips. In the beginning, writing…
Crowdfunding Campaign to Support Ambitious Plans to 3D Print the Universe
It sounds like exactly the kind of evil plan that would be dreamed up by a comically inept super villain with only a limited understanding of exactly what it is that…
3D Printed Animotus Is a Handheld Smart Cube That Guides the Visually Impaired through Touch
We’ve followed numerous 3D printed innovations that have been created for the purpose of helping the visually impaired, from navigational-oriented methods to get around campuses, to ways to ‘view’ art exhibits and even…
3DPhotoWorks Turns Art & Photography into a 3D Printed, Multi-Sensory Experience
3D printing has great purpose in this world. Many important things are happening. Lives are being saved. We are exploring space and taking 3D printers with us. The manufacturing world…
Texas A&M’s 3D Braille Printer Can Print on Any Curved or Flat Plastic Surface
As technology improves, so do the lives of those individuals living with disabilities all around the world. 3D printing has become one of those technologies aiding in creating custom devices,…
Students Create 3D Printed Tactile Map of Campus for Visually Impaired
While 3D printing has most definitely blasted open a new world for designers and hobbyists, specific areas like cartography have received a real boon in progress. Because a map is…
London Artist Brings ‘The Little Prince’ to Life in 3D Print for the Visually Impaired
While as adults we graduate to books ‘without pictures,’ relying on our imaginations to illustrate what the fictional places and people might look like, humans as a rule are very…
3D Printing Technique “Didú” Helps Visually Impaired Feel Art
A few strict rules usually accompany museum visits, and these include “No Photographs” and “No Touching.” Now a new 3D printing technique is being applied to buck these conventional rules,…
Visual Art Exhibit Becomes Accessible to Visually Impaired Thanks to 3D Printing
As human beings, we have five senses, all of which we use on a daily basis. These senses allow us to better interpret our surroundings, share moments of joy with…
Researchers Use 3D Printed Glasses as Case Study in Favor of Introducing Sustainability via 3D Printing
“You say you want a revolution…” Well, you should know by now… one is on the way via 3D printing, and exploding out of every viable avenue. When the technology…
Visually Impaired South Korean Students Receive 3D Printed Touchable Yearbook by 3D TEK
As I wrote out a pretty substantial check for my son to purchase his yearbook for seventh grade, I knew from experience that while it might momentarily seem like quite a…
Yoocan3D Brings 3D Printing and Braille Together to Streamline Communication for the Visually Impaired
While 3D printing is making monumental impacts in very serious sectors like manufacturing, medicine, and space, my favorite headlines to write are for these types of stories, where people’s lives…
3D Printed Bionic Eye Seeks to Allow People with Vision Loss to See Again
3D Printing is such an amazing technology. I can’t emphasize it enough. Each and every day I am surprised by the ways in which this technology is being used. As…
3D Printing Allows Japan’s Blind Football Team to ‘Visualize’ the Championship Venue for Next Week’s Games
Thanks to the increasing advancements in technology, which include 3D printing, many of the world’s visually impaired have been experiencing quite incredible improvements within their lives. We have seen 3D printing…
3D-EYE Seeks to Create 3D Models of Artistic Masterpieces for the Visually Impaired
The capacity of 3D printing to improve virtually every aspect of living cannot really be overstated. It holds particular promise for the visually impaired in many regards. From 3D printed…
3D Printing Offers Visually Impaired the Chance to Preserve Lasting Memories
The third dimension can be the critical bridge for the visually impaired — the difference between the flat, indistinct, and illusive surface and the tactile one that provides an alternative…
Supporting the Mind’s Eye Through 3D Printed Tactile Learning Objects – For the Blind & Sighted Alike
Among the many contributions that 3D printing has made to enriching people’s lives, the benefits to those with vision impairments or blindness are some of the most exciting. A new…
