Braille Reader
Nov. 13th, 2024 11:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithAn 8th grader invented an accessible braille reader that could help people save thousands of dollars
In the end, he invented a small model that cost $20 and a larger model priced at $35.
In his project submission video for Society for Science — which hosts an annual STEM competition called the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge — Mehta showed off his invention and explained the importance of expanding access to braille readers.
“This is crucial, because there are currently 36 million visually impaired individuals around the world, and this number is projected to increase by 55% over the next 30 years,” Mehta explained.
Now that's a useful invention.
In the end, he invented a small model that cost $20 and a larger model priced at $35.
In his project submission video for Society for Science — which hosts an annual STEM competition called the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge — Mehta showed off his invention and explained the importance of expanding access to braille readers.
“This is crucial, because there are currently 36 million visually impaired individuals around the world, and this number is projected to increase by 55% over the next 30 years,” Mehta explained.
Now that's a useful invention.
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Date: 2024-11-14 05:03 pm (UTC)wow! kid's got a better mind for accessibility than half the folks i've met working in the field!
so cool; i hope that kid goes far in life
Yes ...
Date: 2024-11-14 06:56 pm (UTC)Over in Terramagne, this ability appears in Gizmology (bleeding-edge technology) and Super-Gizmology (metascientific stuff that can do things like emulate superpowers), as well as occasionally zetetics (the study of superpowers and related technology) in the context of retro-engineering inventions to be more replicable. Halley and Edison Finn can do it. Edison still needs a spotter because when he gets into an inventing fugue, he'll take apart pretty much anything in reach to scavenge parts -- the microwave, the viewscreen, the folding table, any computer he's not using to draft plans, you name it. And his parents sensibly don't want him to disassemble things like the $$$$ Italian coffee factory in the kitchen.
Compare that with Shiv's "Can't we just do this the easy way?" which is a particular kind of problem-solving, usually but not always based on tool use, that allows him to cut out unnecessary steps or imagine a better tool and then use his superpower to shape it out of scrap metal, glass, etc.
Sometimes, inventing really is about making a better mousetrap -- improving on a solution that already exists.
Re: Yes ...
Date: 2024-11-15 04:00 pm (UTC)<3