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A 13-year-old American has a cheap machine that can blind people read. People who cannot can read by using Braille – a system of small bumps that people to read the letters. Machines that these small bumps into words, sentences and paragraphs very expensive. They are Braille embossers and usually cost at least $2,000. The American teenager, Shubham Banerjee, made a new Braille embosser from a Lego kit that people create robots. It just $350. Banerjee has called his new device the Braigo – a combination of the words Braille and Lego. It works by translating electronic text into Braille and then it using a computer or mobile device.

Banerjee his Braigo last year for a school science fair. Since then, he has the interest of Silicon Valley in the USA. The technology giant Intel in Banerjee's machine last November, but they did not how much money they put in. Banerjee also got $35,000 from his father to help him the project. His father as a computer engineer at Intel. He about why he gave so much money to his son, saying: "We as parents to get involved more, thinking that he's on to something and this innovation process has to ." Banerjee told the AP news agency that: "My end goal would probably having most of the blind people...using my Braille printer."