‘The Blind Side’ Writer-Director John Lee Hancock Helming Disney’s ‘Electric Boy Genius’
Posted on Tuesday, November 9th, 2010 by Adam Quigley
Disney has their next inspiring true story in line for the big screen. They’re calling it Electric Boy Genius, and it’s based on a 2002 GQ article about young inventor and electrical engineering wunderkind Ryan Patterson who, at just 17 years of age, invented an electronic sign-language device that used sensors in a glove to translate specific hand movements into letters on a screen. The article, written by Andrew Corsello, told of Ryan’s victory at the 2001 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, which got him a job working in aerospace robotics for Lockheed Martin. Learn more after the break. Read More »
