[3] The series raised awareness of progresses being made in cities as they became more blind-friendly and also educated children about blind people.
In the first episode, he states that he progressively lost his sight, and was therefore integrated into a school for visually impaired people for the last few years.
This is later retconned to him being blind from birth: this was expressed explicitly in one episode, where a supermodel tells him that he recently lost her sight and that it was best if he could see once, instead of never having seen like he did.
Many episodes happening in a believable scenario featured a reduction in visibility (e.g. smoke from a building on fire) where Nico would save the day by quickly telling people how to "see" without using their eyes, enabling them to, in the above case, escape the building before the fire spread.
Each segment typically started out with something along the lines of "You think someone that is visually impaired can't go skiing?"