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Now, touch screen smart phones for the blind.

"Visually impaired customers of American Express say they can no longer read their credit card statements online. In December Amex changed its format for UK statements from HTML to Portable Document Format or PDF. However, it failed to encode the new PDF documents so they could be read by "screen readers," special software used by blind or partially sighted people. "

"Jason Perkins, 34, talked to blind people in Cardiff to develop a handset that tells users which way to turn by vibrating their index or ring finger. Owners hold the GPS device in the same hand as their guide dog's lead. "

"A device that allows blind people to attach and read audio labels on everyday objects has gone on show. The PenFriend uses minute barcodes which - when scanned by a digital pen - trigger MP3 files recorded on the unit."

"On Dec. 9, perhaps anticipating DOJ action, Amazon announced that audio menu features would be available on Kindle e-readers by summer 2010. Amazon's press release at the time noted that Kindle "has enabled many vision-impaired readers to enjoy books more easily than before, and has also helped dyslexic readers and those with learning disabilities improve their reading skills. ... To make Kindle more useful for the blind, the Kindle team is currently working on an audible menuing system so blind and vision-impaired readers can easily navigate to books unassisted. ... In addition, a new super size font will be added to Kindle, increasing the number of font sizes from six to seven. This seventh font size will be twice the height and width of the current largest font" "

"Last month in Germany, a 45-year-old Bavarian man followed the directions of his GPS device onto the wrong end of a highway off-ramp near the city of Osnabrück, in what the newspaper Die Welt called a case of "blind trust" in his gadget. "

The article speaks about the growth of telemedicine in the rural parts of India. It focuses on the advantages telemedicine provides the people living in the rural areas of India and how it is not only able to avoid serious conditions such as blindness but also how early detection can help them undergo an operation at a much cheaper rate. In this a local villager does not have to go to a hospital for diagnosis but is able to go to a local village and a doctor sitting in the hospital is able to treat via video conference which is conducted on a wi-fi network using webcams.