Tag: Assistive Technology
Tongue piercing lets paralysed drive wheelchairs
An experimental device is letting paralysed people drive wheelchairs simply by flicking their tongue in the right direction.
Key to this wireless system: Users get...
Australian scientists working on ‘bionic spinal cord’
A "bionic spinal cord" that is likely to provide movements for those who have been paralysed by spinal cord injury or stroke is being...
Tobii EyeMobile – Control Windows 8 Pro tablets using only your eyes
http://youtu.be/74bc4-BVLZ8
Tobii EyeMobile is a computer access solution that puts individuals with physical and communication impairments at the forefront of consumer technology. Now, navigating and...
GeekBeat.tv – Technology That Enables
http://youtu.be/QyYR8q5aqU0
Going Off-Road with Tracked Wheelchairs! Technology isn't just fun and games... it can have a major impact in people's lives. We're looking at tech...
Broadened Horizons
Broadened Horizons develops and delivers unique, innovative solutions empowering those with upper extremity physical mobility limitations with tools to break down barriers and lead...
Adaptive Innovation
Adaptive Innovation is a social enterprise that creates unique equipment for people with a disability.
Our focus is on improving quality of life, by designing...
Motorised Mouth Painting Easel
http://youtu.be/DDmnjxWeU70
Adaptive Innovation's motorised mouth painting easel allows someone with a disability such as quadriplegia to paint independently, by removing a number of the physical...
Robotic exoskeleton helps some patients walk again
SALT LAKE CITY – Technology is helping a few people who are paralyzed walk again, and a young woman from Utah is among the...
Kinova USA – Introducing JACO
http://youtu.be/Vqepk4T3H44
JACO is not a robot, because JACO doesn't do for you. JACO is an assistive robotic device that gives you the power & the...
Aiming high: Young accident victim keeps up his studies and his attitude
BUTTE — Who hasn’t done what Calven Goza did? But unlike so many, Goza paid a steep price.
On May 3, 2012, Goza, a student...
