How Talented is your Tongue?

 

 

The Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering has put in tireless efforts and now successfully created a powered wheel chair that in steered using nothing the tongue believe it or not. With this headset, and a well placed magnet, the users tongue becomes a wireless mouse that can be trained to do any number of directives via a portable computer or smart phone. What the scientist found was that even in severe spinal injuries, since the tongue is connected directly to the brain it is not effected no matter how high along the brain stem the injury may be. Using this knowledge they researched and found out the tongue function is just as good as ever and the perfect “tool” since it can move in all three dimensions inside the mouth. Using the Magnetic field created by the strategically placed units on the headset, the amount of accuracy achieved by this device has been 100% so far amongst able bodied individuals. they have even have macro functions that can be programmed to each tooth placement or combination to potentially give Handicapped users full control over animatronics prosthesis and other assistance devices. i actually am feeling this idea and hope it works out. I'm sure it would be ridiculously expensive once perfected but hopefully covered by Insurance so that spinal injury patients can live as independent as possible if they choose. Below is the full video of its explanation and testing.

 

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