A New Hampshire eighth grader with underdeveloped fingers couldn't use a VR controller normally, so he invented his own adaptive device that lets him play

Fourteen-year-old Scott Merrow had already found his own way to use traditional video game controllers. But when virtual reality gaming presented a new challenge, the New Hampshire eighth grader didn't give up. Instead, he set out to invent a device that could make VR more accessible for him — and potentially for others facing similar physical challenges.

Scott, an eighth grader at Auburn Village School in Auburn, New Hampshire, has symbrachydactyly, a condition that affects the development of the fingers. He affectionately refers to his left hand as his “little hand.”