I am surprised, reading these comments. I'm the ultimate over-sensitive 
reader and I read this quite differently. You have to allow for 
reporters completely messing up his words, but this guy basically said 
that he thinks the problem with his device *now* is that blind people 
can't build their own. I read this as, his assumption, that  he can 
improve it so that the average [non-engineer] blind person  *can* build 
their own. I might expect him to be a little off re the abilities of 
blind people if he  started out not knowing any, but I can't imagine his 
even throwing out such a sentence unless he thought this was something 
we could do. And applaud someone getting that that might be a good goal 
rather than aspiring to build a company to manufacture his new invention 
and think he might get rich off it. I think, if you  substitute "person" 
for "blind person" all you get is a generalization about the average, 
something that gets done all the time, without people meaning that there 
are no engineers out there who can do what the average person cannot.

This might not be the invention I want most, but I actually think it is 
exactly the right attitude on the part of the inventor.

Lynn


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