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LEGO Finally Sells Braille Bricks – For Learning a New Skill While Playing With Fully Compatible Pieces

Finally, after four years of testing and developing, LEGO is selling braille bricks that use the bumps on their iconic bricks to teach the...

Restaurant Makes Special Chocolate For Blind Customer With Birthday Message in Braille

There may be a thousand ways to say, ‘Happy Birthday!’ but the sweetest of all may very well be a special chocolate message that...

37 Years Ago She Began Making Braille Children’s Books to Cut the Cost By 90% And Donate Them Worldwide

March is Reading Month, and this inspiring blog post was submitted to GNN by one of our own readers. If you have an interesting...

LEGO Converts Their Instruction Manuals into Audio and Braille, Inspired by Blind Man’s Website

What started as a kind gesture between two friends is now being rolled out as a global pilot program that will allow thousands of...

LEGO Unveils New Bricks That Will Help Teach Blind Children to Read Braille

Once the prototypes are fully developed, the LEGO Foundation says that they will also be giving the kits away to various institutions for blindness.

Prisoners Change Their Lives, Becoming Expert Braille Transcribers for Blind Students

Just because these inmates are behind bars doesn't mean that they can't make a positive difference in the world, or do something so meaningful...

Blind Boy Receives Heartwarming Response in Braille From Nintendo

This fifth grader may be blind, but he loves playing video games. Because of Hibiki's visual impairment, he can only play certain games that utilize sound as...

High School Teens Surprise Blind Student With Special Yearbook in Braille

Maycie Vorreiter may be the first ever lucky high school senior to receive an honorary yearbook published in braille.

Teens Develop Revolutionary App That Will Teach Blind Children Braille

Did you know only 10% of blind people under the age of 18 could read braille? Well neither did these kids, which is why they made this one-of-a-kind app.

Breakthrough Smart Watch Converts Text and Email into Braille

207 years ago today, the man who devised a system for reading and writing for the blind, was born. Now, Louis Braille’s system of dots has been...

Entrepreneur, 13, Gets Intel Funding for Low-cost Braille Printer

At just 12 years old, a San Jose, California middle-schooler received funding last month from Intel Capital, the company's venture capital arm, for his prototype low-cost...
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12-year-old Builds Braille Printer Using Legos

A California seventh grader looking for a science project decided to tackle the issue of braille printers being too expensive for families with blind...
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India’s First Braille Newspaper Brings News to Thousands

Knowing that empowerment comes with the ability to read, journalist Swagat Thorat launched India's only newspaper for the blind. Now, thanks to Thorat -- who is...

28-Year-old Man is Overwhelmed With Emotion After Hearing for the First Time–Watch

A Los Angeles man was overwhelmed with emotion after hearing voices clearly for the first time, thanks to a cochlear implant. Aric Hoffmann has lived...

Blind Jazz Sax Teacher Inspires Students to ‘Feel’ Their Instruments–Uses His ‘Disability’ as Teaching Tool

From a Tampa performing arts conservatory comes the story of a blind jazz saxophonist who uses his disability as a teaching tool. Like Obi-Wan...

Good News in History, January 4

On this day 375 years ago, perhaps the greatest physicist the world has known, Isaac Newton, was born. Widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time, he invented his own calculus when he was 26 years old. An English mathematician, astronomer, and theologian, his book Principia, “Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy”, formulated our understanding of the mechanics of motion and gravity, which dominated scientists’ view of the physical universe for the next three centuries. This farmer’s son also built the first practical reflecting telescope, and made pathbreaking observations in optics, figuring out that white light is really made of multiple colors. WATCH a cool video... (1543)

Little Boy Reunited With LEGO Man After Creating a ‘Missing Person’ Poster – LOOK

A ten-year-old who lost his beloved ‘Lego man’ has been reunited with the figure, after creating a 'missing person' poster for it. Jack Steel was...

‘Fantastic’ Finding Uncovers Silent Frog Species That ‘Doesn’t Croak, Chirp, Sing or Ribbit’

Originally written by Liz Kimbrough. Reprinted from Mongabay on a CC 4.0. License.  Up in Tanzania’s Ukaguru Mountains, researchers have found a new-to-science frog species...

LEGO Brings Van Gogh’s Most Famous Painting Into the Third Dimension With 2,316 Fan-Designed Bricks

Always keeping an eye on its more mature fans, LEGO is preparing to release a set of Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh's great work, Starry...

Bride Surprises Blind Groom by Wearing a Special Tactile Wedding Dress: ‘My mind was blown’

Weddings are by their nature, inherently touching, but for one recent bride and groom, the ceremony was not only touching but tactile as well. When...