Two young Mumbai innovators, Surabhi Srivastava and Shyam Shah, who work out of the IIT campus in Powai, are heartened at the response to their invention BrailleMe, a smart Braille display, priced at approximately Rs 25,000, which enables a blind person to read books and edit documents. BrailleMe converts text to Braille and Braille to text.

Surabhi explained how BrailleMe worked. "If a blind person wants to read a book, like perhaps Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist and it is not available in Braille, but if it is available in soft copy, one can take that on to the SD card and the BrailleMe’s software auto converts it into Braille using the Braille code. BrailleMe enables a blind person to read books, documents, papers access computers or smart phones in Braille."