Stories
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Navigating in a connected world
Alex Lee ponders the promising ideas, stalled projects and pricey gadgets that aim to help visually impaired people get out and about. But it seems that an actual human could be the essential ingredient.
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The sweet sound of synthetic speech
After Alex experienced a serious deterioration in his sight, he came to rely on artificial voices to help him with everyday tasks. Find out how synthetic speech came to be developed.
Catalogue
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Abstracts, and, Report of the Committee on Optical Devices / V Pan-American Congress of Ophthalmology, Santiago de Chile, 8 to 14 January 1956.
Pan American Congress of Ophthalmology 1956 : Santiago, Chile)Date: [1956?]- Journals
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Transactions of the Optical Society
Optical Society (Great Britain)Date: 1900-1932- Books
Open your eyes to understanding visual handicap : a summary of the help available to visually handicapped people and of the use of low vision aids / Optical Information Council.
Date: 1989- Books
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Modern optical instruments and their construction / by Henry Orford.
Orford, Henry.Date: 1896- Books
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The principles and methods of geometrical optics : especially as applied to the theory of optical instruments / by James P. C. Southall.
Southall, James P. C. (James Powell Cocke), 1871-1962.Date: 1913