CNET

Now your tongue can secretly operate a computer, wheelchair

Many with ALS or high-level spinal-cord injuries have been relying for years on the old sip-and-puff technology to operate wheelchairs and computers. This tech requires the user to sip or puff precise ...
Wired

'Tongue Drive System' Controls Wheelchair, Computer

Quadriplegics may gain a new degree of freedom via their tongues, if a new control system becomes widely available. The new system uses that famously strong, agile and sensitive muscle, the tongue, to ...
newswire

MagTrack Technology Opens Doors for Independent Operation of Smartphones, Computers, Other Devices for Wheelchair Users

Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Partners with Brooks Rehabilitation in Human Participant Phase of Groundbreaking Technology Study JACKSONVILLE, Fla., February 9, 2022 ...
Machine Design

A Tongue-Activated Sensor Lets Patients Paralyzed From the Neck Down Maneuver a Wheelchair or Run a Computer Program

Patients with high-level spinal injuries — those who cannot move their arms, legs, and sometimes even their heads — can have a hard time controlling wheelchairs or running computer programs, even with ...
EurekAlert!

MagTrack technology opens doors for independent operation of smartphones, computers, and other devices for wheelchair users

Brooks Rehabilitation recently announced that the MagTrack study, a collaborative research endeavor with the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been successfully completed ...