By 1930, the white cane — with the addition of a red tip — was popularized among blind and visually impaired Americans.

Blind people using white canes are limited in how fast they can walk, as they have to wait for the tip of their cane to hit obstacles before going around them. The NextGuide cane is different, in ...

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Blind people have used canes for centuries to help with travel. Today’s lightweight canes were developed after World War 2 to help restore independence to veterans who lost their sight in the war.

Since 2008, he has conducted a series of long cane studies with his colleagues at WMU. In previous studies, Kim has experimented with different cane tips. Plain pencil-type tips can catch or snag in ...

An entrepreneur comes to you, who is blind, and has the perfect product for blind people. It just made sense," said Michael Gosse, president of Blind Industries and Services of Maryland.

The tip added to a cane, too, would be cheap to produce. Collins compares the technology to buttons on a TV remote, which each pulse out different frequencies of light that are read by a cheap ...

Observed Oct. 15 nationwide, the day celebrates the achievements of people who are blind or visually impaired and the importance of the white cane, a symbol of blindness and tool of independence.

Drivers don't seem to notice her white cane. If they do, they don't seem to care. "Many people have no clue what this white cane stands for," she said. Holcombe is legally blind.

If you know how the streets of Staunton look, you might not know how they feel or sound. In celebration of White Cane Day, the Virginia Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired hosted the second ...

The tip of the blind Spokane resident’s cane had just popped off after some rough traveling on the cracked, uneven and missing sidewalks of her Southgate neighborhood, and she was working to ...