Sandy Lacey
Guest on Building AI Boston
Sandy K. Lacey is the founding executive director of the Howe Innovation Center at Perkins School for the Blind, where she leads innovation initiatives in disability technology and accessible products and services. She has over two decades of experience across startups, government, and corporate innovation, including work in climatetech and advanced technologies, and has taught entrepreneurship at Tufts University and MIT Sloan.
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Perkins Brailler👍 Recommends
…discussing how the Perkins Brailler is an iconic device for teaching braille literacy
“So we invented it in 1951. It's mechanical. So there's no electrical components to this. It's a mechanical typewriter. It is awesome. I know Tom Hanks loves typewriters. So if he hears this, he needs to contact me and I will give him a Brailler. This Brailler, it is like, it's a tank, right? And it lasts. So we have half a million of that, like around 400,000, maybe 450 globally. We sell into 130 countries. And it's a beautiful, beautiful machine.”
on Building AI Boston