New hi- tech UltraCane puts blind and partially sighted users streets ahead The new UltraCane, a sophisticated, electronic mobility aid, is giving more blind and visually impaired people in the UK and around the world the protection and safety they need to walk around with confidence.

Science decodes 'Internal voices' Researchers have demonstrated a striking method to reconstruct words, based on the brain waves of patients thinking of those words.

Inventive Teacher Gives Disabled Student 'Control' MIAMI (CBS4) — Sixteen-year-old Danny Lamarca is a student at Holmes Braddock Senior High School in Miami and like most teenage boys he loves playing video games and he’s good at it too.

A school in Cheadle has teamed up with PZ Cussons to produce a system where smells are associated to objects. The Royal School Manchester and Cussons, a fragrance house in Salford, have created a range of smells that have been initially designed to replace natural food smells to be used…

Bookshare offers e-books for the disabled courtesy of the US Government.  You register for the service (which includes providing proof of disability),  pay a subscription of $70 (about £45) for the first year  and then all books are free.  The catalogue includes old classics but also has modern books and…

The Aidis Trust's patron His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, met with Aidis' Trustees and members of staff.

Iris technology could soon help electric wheelchair users Severely disabled people could soon be able to control their electric wheelchairs by simply looking in the direction they wish to travel.

Eye-tracking technology could aid disabled children. Researchers at the Royal Holloway in London have designed a computer program that will allow disabled children eye's movement correspond with with a person's preference.

The Cyberdyne Corporation (based in Japan) has created a robotic suit called HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb) to allow people who suffer from spiral cord injuries, physical disabilities or stroke induced paralysis, to walk and carry as much as ten times more weight than normal.

Raspberry PI, a charitable organization based in the UK, has just created a tiny computer capable of giving its larger cousins a run for their money.