Shubham Banerjee was just 12 when he founded Braigo Labs. This is a company developing Braille printers with the ability to take online text, convert it to braille, and print it out. More than that, Shubham redeveloped this process for 3D. This cuts the price of the printer by more than 1,000 dollars, which keeps the price in the low hundreds. This allows the impact to reach people in every economic class.
Shubham writes about his inspirations for this company on their website. He states that 285 million people are visually impared and 90% live in the developing world. What he likes about his printers is that they are D-I-Y. This allows for an easy adoption process by customers.
Truthfully Shubham tells the story and mission way better himself. He is quite young, but extremely entrepreneurial in his thinking. At just twelve he started having extreme impact on the world. It will be neat to see how this technology develops and how people will utilize it.
Wow, this is a really great idea! I can’t believe he thought of this at such a young age. This business is definitely a life-changing one that will impact so many people. I love how it is easy to use and adopt, as many of the users would be those in the developing world.
The fact that Shubham Banerjee was just 12 when he began pursuing this idea is incredible. Additionally, I know that I would never have thought to use braille in order to convert text into a code that the printer uses is an amazing idea.
It is so cool that such a young boy has a passion to help a community that unfortunately gets overlooked sometimes. He enabled future creation and help in that area.
I am impressed that this 12 year old was able to see a huge problem in the world and use his skills and ideas to solve it. It is very mature of a 12 year old to be caring about a problem like that and taking action to help it. This story is another great example of taking something that you care about and trying to make it better.
I don’t know what I was doing when I was 12 but it surely was not solving a huge problem like this. He seems like a very smart, mature intelligent you boy and I cant wit to see what he does in the future.
My aunt is blind so I have a emotional love for this idea. My aunt has always had trouble with getting info because she has to either listen to it or get a copy made in braille, and those are normally very large and heavy. Also, he did this at 12, I was barely doing homework at 12!