Portraits
Read MoreJoby Rogers, an internationally known Michael Jackson impersonator holds a glove he had made and a jacket a fellow impersonator gave Rogers. Rogers has been fielding calls from all over the world about his reaction to the death of the 50 year old pop star. Rogers was on the cover of the last Rolling Stone's cover of 1999 when the magazine covered celebrity impersonators. May 24, 2009.
The family of late Willie Brown, gather in their back yard. Top row, left to right: Teresa Brown, sister, Toby Bown, brother, Kadrina Robbins, daughter, Thirena Brown, sister, Corey Brown, brother. Center row, left to right: Tanisha Brown, daughter, Lilease Johnson, grandmother, (holding picture of Willie) and Lubecca Brown, mother. Bottom row, left to right: Nicole Brown, sister and Lisa Brown, sister, in the famnily back yard on Thursday, five days after Willie Brown was stabed and later died. July 16, 2009.
Eric Zeiberg, 12, sits at his desk in West Hartford. After a family friend with muscular dystrophy suggested that he create a handwriting-to-speech iPad app, Eric did so. He developed a test application, a talking calculator, and then combined two existing types of software - handwriting-to-text and text-to-speech - to create HandySpeech, which sells for $29.99 for the iPad.
Edward Shaw, an Army National Guard soldier sits in the studio where he works at Tattoo International in Wallingford, CT. Shaw was in Afghanistan with the Army National Guard and in his spare time he would tattoo soldiers to keep up moral. "It's like a rite of passage for soldiers," Shaw says. May 3, 2007.
Charlie Collins, owner of Vision Dynamics in Cheshire shows us the Nokia N82, a phone running a program called the knfb reader which allows users to photograph text and in an audible voice, the phone reads the words in the photo. The device is more mobile than the desktop reading machine on the left, but won't replace it because the desktop reader allows users to write letters and read on their own. February 20, 2009.