A 17-year-old high school student received a Unicef award in Athens, at an event that took place on November 20, on Universal Children’s Day, for his ground-breaking invention: a state-of-the-art mechanical glove designed for people with disabilities. Haris Ioannou said he came up with the idea of a metallic glove two years ago, when he first noticed that his grandmother  was having great difficulty moving her hands: "at times she couldn't even grab the TV remote," Ioannou said.