Stories
- Article
The unimprovable white cane
Recent technological additions to the white cane aim to make the world easier for visually impaired people to navigate. Alex Lee explores whether new is really better.
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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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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.
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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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Letters between G L Brown and J B S Haldane
Date: Feb 1944 - Mar 1944Reference: HALDANE/4/16/1/15Part of: Haldane Papers- Books
Understanding the links between agriculture and health / edited by Corinna Hawkes and Marie T. Ruel.
Date: 2006- Books
Broad vision : inspired by - images from science / co-authored by Broad Vision student and staff researchers ; with a foreword by Robert Devcic ; edited by Heather Barnett.
Date: [2012], ©2012- Books
2020 vision : our future healthcare environments : a summary of the key findings of the 2020 vision research project - a multi-disciplinary study to identify current social, economic and technological trends and how they might influence the design of healthcare environments over the next 20 years / Building Futures.
Building FuturesDate: [2000?]- Books
Communes and the green vision : counterculture, lifestyle and the New Age / David Pepper.
Pepper, DavidDate: 1991