<story><title>Lego Launches Braille Bricks for Children to Learn Braille</title><url>https://design-milk.com/lego-launches-braille-bricks-for-children-to-learn-braille/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>samuraiseoul</author><text>The real take away here is that only 10% of children who are visually impaired or blind learn braille. Additionally upon looking up that stat cause I figured surely it must be sensationalized, 50% of blind students dropout of school and over 70% are unemployed. A lot of it seems to stem from illiteracy. What a fucking outrage.&lt;p&gt;Edit: I had the the percentages backwards, 70% are unemployed and 50% drop out, not the other way around as I had written.&lt;p&gt;Information taken from &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nfb.org&amp;#x2F;images&amp;#x2F;nfb&amp;#x2F;documents&amp;#x2F;pdf&amp;#x2F;braille_literacy_report_web.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nfb.org&amp;#x2F;images&amp;#x2F;nfb&amp;#x2F;documents&amp;#x2F;pdf&amp;#x2F;braille_literac...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Lego Launches Braille Bricks for Children to Learn Braille</title><url>https://design-milk.com/lego-launches-braille-bricks-for-children-to-learn-braille/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>HeWhoLurksLate</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s really cool!  I would have &lt;i&gt;never&lt;/i&gt; thought of that.&lt;p&gt;Relatedly, someone made a Braille printing robot out of a Lego one a while ago, too, and apparently went even further- &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.usatoday.com&amp;#x2F;story&amp;#x2F;tech&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;20&amp;#x2F;braille-lego-printer&amp;#x2F;22055135&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.usatoday.com&amp;#x2F;story&amp;#x2F;tech&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;20&amp;#x2F;braille-lego-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>