Medical journal reports that two women experience ‘transient smartphone blindness’ after constantly checking phones in the dark Warning: Looking at your smartphone while lying in bed at night could wreak havoc on your vision. Two women went temporarily blind from constantly checking their phones in the dark, say doctors who are now alerting others to the unusual phenomenon. Fomo, stress and sleeplessness: are smartphones bad for students? Read more The […]

Srikanth Bolla, CEO of Bollant Industries, has set his sights on changing lives Get rid of him. That was the first thing that neighbours told Srikanth Bolla’s parents when they came to see him soon after his birth in a remote village in the east coast of Andhra Pradesh 24 years ago. Bolla was born sightless. That’s what, he says, scores of parents ordinarily did and still do – abandon […]

Silicon Valley, it’s never too early to become an entrepreneur. Just ask 13-year-old Shubham Banerjee. comyanThe California eighth-grader has launched a company to develop low-cost machines to print Braille, the tactile writing system for the visually impaired. Tech giant Intel Corp recently invested in his startup, Braigo Labs. Shubham built a Braille printer with a Lego robotics kit as a school science fair project last year after he asked his […]