Kush Jain ’22 has been named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for work by his company, ORama AI, which has developed a high-tech glove to help people learn to read Braille.

Since its founding in early 2022, the company has raised more than a half million dollars in funding. The glove uses light and sensor technology to “read” the dots beneath a person’s fingers and speak the words out loud.

“More than 90 percent of visually impaired people can’t read Braille because it requires a tutor to learn,” Jain said, adding that tutors are in short supply and expensive. “Meanwhile, there’s a lot of employment data that shows that braille literacy is the single most determining factor of whether a visually impaired person is employed.”

Jain, who is from India, was inspired to create the device after volunteering at a school for the blind in Bangalore in 2018. He created a prototype for the device as a student at Cornell and a member of the eLab student business accelerator. He also received support from faculty and staff as a student in the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity in the College of Arts & Sciences.

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