Three years ago, Lego began offering free special building bricks, coded with braille, to schools and services that focused on vision-impaired children. Now the rest of the world will get the chance to play with them.
The toymaker will begin selling sets with the braille-coded bricks at retail for the first time on Sept. 1. The bricks each have a braille version of a letter or number, with the printed version of that character below, in order to help blind and partially sighted children play games and learn to attach and stack the bricks.
