Bright Ideas

I was left with great sense of hope after reading profiles in the New York Times Sunday Edition section pictured above. As a society we spend so much time highlighting youths wearing drooping pants and teens committing violence and spend a lesser amount of time on encouraging and celebrating the kids who are doing some great things.

The kids profiled in the newspaper segment are worth talking about. The story by Abby Ellin titled See Me, Hear Me was most heartwarming. The story briefly profiles Eitan Glinert and his team who worked on AudiOdyssey, a video game that allows visually impaired people to play together with sighted people via a keyboard or Nintendo Wii remote. Ellin reports that Glinert said: "People with disabilities were being left out of progress in the gaming market," as the reason for development of the game. Glinert has founded Fire Hose Games as well to develop video games that have a positive impact on society.