13-year-old builds a printer for the blind with Lego blocks
Clip: 12/22/2014 | 7m 35s
Builds literacy among the blind with a teen inventor’s low-cost Lego printer
A simple question -- how do blind people read? -- inspired a middle-schooler’s transformation into a tech entrepreneur. Using Lego blocks, 13-year-old Shubham Banerjee created a low-cost braille printer to improve access and literacy for the visually impaired. Special correspondent Jackie Judd reports as part of our Breakthroughs series.
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13-year-old builds a printer for the blind with Lego blocks
Clip: 12/22/2014 | 7m 35s
A simple question -- how do blind people read? -- inspired a middle-schooler’s transformation into a tech entrepreneur. Using Lego blocks, 13-year-old Shubham Banerjee created a low-cost braille printer to improve access and literacy for the visually impaired. Special correspondent Jackie Judd reports as part of our Breakthroughs series.
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