For the Blind, Technology Does What a Guide Dog Can’t
From: NY Times - 01/03/2009
By: Miguel Helft

T.V. Raman was a bookish child who developed a love of math and puzzles at an
early age. 

That passion didn’t change after glaucoma took his eyesight at the age of 14.
What changed is the role that technology - and his own innovations - played
in helping him pursue his interests.  

A native of India, Mr. Raman went from relying on volunteers to read him
textbooks at a top technical university there to leading a largely autonomous
life in Silicon Valley, where he is a highly respected computer scientist and
an engineer at Google. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/business/04blind.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2

Links:
Google Explores 'Eyes-Free' Phones
http://beta.technologyreview.com/communications/22731/

Google I/O
http://code.google.com/events/io/

Creating applications for Android that help change people's lives
http://code.google.com/p/eyes-free/