Braille keyboard at your IPAD fingertips?

"More than 6.6 million americans over 16 are visually impaired"

“Now they can use an iPad and they’re the cool kid,” he says. “They have the coolest technology in the classroom.” Summers also notes that this keyboard app could allow blind users to type incredibly quickly."

Reblogged from Wired: 
http://www.wired.com/2015/01/ibrailler-ipad-app/

Visual impairment statistics:
https://nfb.org/blindness-statistics

Inspiring people!

Emma Jefferies

Doctor Design, Ph.D in Design and Dyslexic, writing about the importance of visuals and skills related to visuals.

http://www.emmajefferies.com/the-dyslexic-phd

Lisa Barrett 

Reserach on emotions (using metaphors etc)
http://www.affective-science.org/people.shtml
The basic notions of fear, anger etc are not good categories to explain emotions...

Intel invests in diversity!

"Intel said it has established a $300 million fund to be used in the next three years to improve the diversity of the company’s work force, attract more women and minorities to the technology field and make the industry more hospitable to them once they get there. The money will be used to fund engineering scholarships and to support historically black colleges and universities."

Read more at: 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/07/technology/intel-budgets-300-million-for-diversity.html?_r=1