It's being launched alongside retailer Sight and Sound Technology, which specializes in tech for the visually-impaired.
Iain Dawson, a visually-impaired parathlete who advised the students on the four-week project, was impressed with their efforts.
However, the defending British visually-impaired mixed coxed fours boat, easily booked their place in Saturday's final - winning the semi-final by 13 seconds.
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Dawson, a former world and European paratriathlon champion who suffers from X-rated retinoschisis, also praised "Rainbow Touch" -- an idea which uses panels of color and textures on sports clothing to help visually-impaired athletes identify teammates.
His efforts to get a visually impaired person on rule-making committees have been rebuffed.
Over the years, a diverse caravan of novice runners, amateur athletes, enthusiastic 16-year-olds, spry septuagenarians and even visually impaired and partially paralyzed people have all converged on the MDS to test their limits, mark an occasion or escape briefly from their regular lives.
Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier was questioned by MEPs on 15 February 2012 on why the Commission had not signed up to an international treaty to make it legal for blind and visually impaired people to make braille or large-print copies of published books.
The visually impaired athletes are male and female with T11-T13 classifications.
Amputees and visually impaired athletes will now also be running the 26-mile, 385-yard, route.
Home Page Reader uses a 10-key numeric keypad interface so that blind and visually impaired users can interact with their computers and navigate the Internet.
The inventor tested his label maker at a workshop last year in Katpadi, India, where blind trainees successfully taught other visually impaired users how to create their very own Braille-It.
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