Students invent innovative Braille reading device

Instead of enjoying the summer vacation time like most junior middle school students, Feng Boyao and Meng Shuqi are busy improving the Braille reading device they invented.

Feng and Meng, students at No 37 Middle School in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, spent nearly a year developing a new kind of Braille reading device and won the first prize at a recent provincial-level youth science and technology innovation competition.

The patented device will be entered in a national-level competition that will kick off in Beijing next week.