By Aydah Ashraf
13-year old Shubham Banerjee has been
promised a few hundred thousand dollars to develop his idea by tech company
Intel. A Braille printer will provide blind
people with the chance to print out and read pages from the Internet as well as
other text documents.
It has been difficult to develop
electronic Braille printers in the past due to their cost but he thinks he has
got it. The teenager originally created a
prototype of a Braille printer out of Lego when he was just 12.
He was
invited to show this early version of the printer at the White House in
Washington DC.
The schoolboy from California has secured
funding to bring his idea for a low-cost Braille printer to market. This new printer will mean blind people will
not need to order Braille read books. Braille is a system of bumps to read.
Shubham
originally came up with the idea for a science fair. He then set up his company
Braigo Labs with funding from his parents. He is now working with the tech
company on a new version using a budget-priced chip and 3D-printed parts. Let’s
wish him full success on this.
