National Braille Press Presents $10,000 to Winners of Touch of Genius Awards
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National Braille Press Presents $10,000 to Winners of Touch of Genius Awards
Bristol Braille Wins for Braille Display and ObjectiveEd for interactive learning application
(Photo from the CSUN conference in Anaheim, CA: Brian Mac Donald and Marty Shultz, Brian Mac Donald and Ed Rogers, courtesy of the National Braille Press)
(Boston, MA) – March 14, 2019 – National Braille Press (NBP) presented a total of $10,000 to the winners of this year’s Louis Braille Touch of Genius Prize for Innovation at the CSUN Assistive Technology Conference in Anaheim, California. NBP awarded $5,000 to Bristol Braille for its braille display and $5,000 to ObjectiveEd for its interactive learning app.
Bristol Braille developed the Canute, a 360-cell refreshable braille display with 9 rows of 40 cells. The Canute is the first affordable multi-line display on the market. Ed Rogers, Director of Bristol Braille Technologies of Bristol, UK, accepted the award from NBP.
“We applaud Bristol Braille Technologies for their ingenuity in creating the Canute,” said Brian Mac Donald, President of the National Braille Press who presented the Touch of Genius Awards at the CSUN conference. [...]