Besides those who were slain on the battlefield by day, many soldiers – including his fellow officers – were killed in the ...

"Braille, which is made of tiny raised dots, requires very precise sensors to be read correctly," said research team leader Zhuo Wang from Beijing Normal University in China. "Traditional sensors ...

Want to play with refreshable Braille systems? This open-source display uses Flexinol wire to actuate the dots.

Louis Braille, born on January 4, 1809, in Coupvray, France, revolutionised accessibility for the visually impaired with his ingenious tactile writing system. Louis, who lost his vision at the age ...

Personal stories from around the world of braille users and how this very simple invention continues to transform lives.

Braille is a tactile representation of alphabetic and numerical symbols using six dots to represent each letter and number, and even musical, mathematical and scientific symbols. Braille (named ...

Determined to facilitate that transfer of knowledge, he began working on his own system, inspired by a code of dots and dashes created for soldiers by a French Army captain. Braille was just 15 ...