As one of our February 09 Shell LiveWIRE ‘Grand Ideas’ Awards winners, Niall Slater will be using his £1000 prize money to pay for the design, manufacture and sale of his new low-cost electronic braille display – ‘BrailleBand’ – which translates between braille and digital text.
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The inner part of the coin depicts a hand reading an open book by touch. Above the index finger, which is pointing at the vertical inscription LOUIS BRAILLE 18092009, are two birds symbolising freedom of knowledge. The issuing country reference RI is at the top right, while the mint mark R is at the bottom right. Braille’s name is written under the book in the Braille alphabet that he invented. At the very bottom are the initials MCC of the artist Maria Carmela Colanéri. The twelve stars of the European Union surround the design on the outer ring of the coin.
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