This toy company has designed Braille bricks to make learning fun for visually impaired children

The Lego Braille bricks, to be launched in 2020, feature studs used for characters in the Braille alphabet, along with printed characters for sighted people to read. Visually impaired children will soon be able to learn Braille through play, thanks to toy company Lego which has reportedly come up with Braille bricks to encourage learning in a “playful and engaging […]

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Distracted people can be ‘smell blind’

‘Inattentional smell blindness’, or inattentional anosmia, has been proven to exist in a study from the University of Sussex. Just as it has previously been found that people can miss visual cues when they are busily engaged in a task, the same is true of smells. And unlike visual stimuli, which would be noticed once the person stops being busy, […]

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