![]() Speed, said Kowalski, is secondary at this point in the project’s development to making sure that the visually impaired have affordable access to printing essays, e-mails and other word documents. The embosser developed by the Northeastern students would cost about $200 to make and print one character per second. ![]() The National Braille Press, a Boston-based, nonprofit Braille printing and publishing house, sponsored the project and plans to market the printer as an inexpensive alternative for public and private use by the legally blind.Įxisting Braille embossers cost between $2,000 and $6,000 and print between 15 and 78 characters per second. ![]() Northeastern University’s Office of Technology Innovation and Commercialization has filed a provisional application for a patent on the product, which maintains Northeastern’s rights for up to one year. The team members included engineering majors Ben Braggins, Molly Brown, Patrick Cleary and Jeff Witkowski. ![]() The students developed the innovative technology for a senior capstone project under the direction of mechanical and industrial engineering associate professor Gregory Kowalski. Northeastern University student-researchers have won the Touch of Genius Prize for Innovation from the National Braille Press for designing a low-cost, retrofitted Braille embosser. ![]()
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