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In Silicon Valley, it's never too early to become an entrepreneur. Just ask 13-year-old Shubham Banerjee. 在硅谷，何时成为一个企业家都不嫌早。看看这个13岁的男孩舒布哈姆·班纳吉The California eighth-grader has launched a company to develop low-cost machines to print Braille, the tactile writing system for the visually impaired. Tech giant Intel Corp. recently invested in his startup, Braigo Labs. 这位来自加利福尼亚的八年级男孩设立了一家公司来开发低成本的布莱叶盲文打印机。布莱叶盲文是为有视觉障碍的人提供的触觉书写系统。科技巨头英特尔近日也对这个男孩的创业公司Braigo Labs进行了投资。 Shubham built a Braille printer with a Lego robotics kit as a school science fair project last year after he asked his parents a simple question: How do blind people read? "Google it," they told him. 舒布哈姆曾经问他的爸爸妈妈盲人是怎么阅读的，他们回答是让他自己到谷歌上搜。后来，在学校去年的科学展项目中，他用乐高机器人做了一台盲文打印机。 Shubham then did some online research and was shocked to learn that Braille printers, also called embossers, cost at least $2,000 — too expensive for most blind readers, especially in developing countries. 再后来，舒布哈姆上网搜索并震惊地发现，又被称为压纹机的盲文打印机售价高达2000美元——对于多数盲人读者来说并不便宜，尤其在发展中国家。 | 
