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POPSDocumentary - The Boy Who Sees Without Eyes An amazing story I was reminded of when I saw another one like it recently. So accurate is his technique that he is even able to go rollerblading on the street, negotiating narrow gaps between parked cars that even sighted children might find challenging. In fact, Ben’s mother, Aquanetta, inds that her son is far more attentive to the dangers of the road than his friends, always the first to move onto the pavement when a car approaches. Ben first noticed his talent at the age of seven, when at summer camp. While it began as just a habit, Ben explains, he soon realised that it had potential benefits for navigation. He began to practise every day and developed the system to the point it is at today. It is the fact that Ben is entirely self-taught that is perhaps most astonishing and has led people to use the term ‘genius’ when referring to the boy. (Excerpt from demand.five.tv)
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POPSFrench team to have names in Braille on soccer jerseys To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Louis Braille, whose system for reading and writing opened up new world for the blind all over the world, the French players will have their names printed in Braille on the backs of their soccer jerseys.
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POPSDollar ReDe$ign project: designs by Michael Tyznik The recent redesigns of US currency have focused on issues of security, not aesthetics. In other words, the new bills are really ugly. The Dollar ReDe$ign Project is open to anyone who wants to redesign the US Dollar. Got an interesting idea? Submit it! It can't be worse than what we have now and it might be much better.
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POPSAmazon Cheats Book Authors First it was Google, which proposed a few years ago to scan every book in existence without compensating the copyright holders. (A proposal that was amended after an outcry from publishers and authors.) Now Amazon has found a new way to rip off authors, who sell audio rights to their books to supplement generally meager incomes. The Kindle II now delivers books via voice - without compensating authors. Here the head of the Author's Guild explains his position. Time for me to find another online book purveyor.
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POPSPlayboy, Braille Edition this page is actually titled "Photographer Captures America's Best-Kept Secrets" there are some really cool images but I think this one is the funniest.
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POPSA touchy feely invisible cosmos The Universe in Braille. Sounds unlikely, but the point is made that the images we see that have been taken by the Hubble, Chandra X-Ray, and Spitzer infra Red Telescopes, are graphis representations of wavelengths outside the visible spectrum. There is no reason a blind person would have any less accurate picture of the Universe than a sighted person. Perhaps their view can be clearer, because they are not made blind by preconception.
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