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Vibrations: Free Software for those both blind and deaf

by vibhore on Sep 15, 2012      Category: Health & Disability Tags: blind deaf technology
From: http://www.bapsi.org/vibrations-series-of-products-for-deafblind VIBRATIONS is a series of mobile apps, that will enable the deafblind to receive and produce information to communicate using a smart phone. The project plans to use vibrations to read text to make wikipedia readable (by filtering out the unnecessary text, images and details), explore benefit of speech-to-text to listen to others and text-to-speech facility to type in text and make it possible for them to post tweets.  Project VIBRATIONS was launched in November 2010 with the aim to develop mo
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60 Lives, 30 Kidneys, All Linked

by vibhore on Feb 23, 2012      Category: Health & Disability Tags: kidney transplant organ donation
A Good Samaritan kidney donation by a California man began a progression of kidney retrievals and transplants, as 30 donors gave their organs to 30 strangers on behalf of their loved ones (full story). Simply wow! I was speechless after reading the above story - it's a great mixture of human compassion, modern technology, & medical advancement. It turns out that similar registries do exist in India. Some results from Google: http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_kidney-registry-scores-first-success-in-mumbai_1491726 (Successful registry based swap in Mumbai) http://www.a
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Donorthon: A campaign for organ donation

by Shreyashi on Aug 16, 2010      Category: Health & Disability Tags: health donate organ donation pledge
For lakhs of people in the country, the wait for an organ donor is often long and futile. Only relatives with the correct blood type are allowed to donate. One way around this is to encourage people to pledge their organs after they die.
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