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February 24, 2012 10:42 pm PST
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Tongue piercing steers wheelchair
This device is a wheelchair steering "wheel" in the form of a dental retainer instrumented with sensors that are activated by a tongue piercing. Georgia Institute of Technology engineers devised the Tongue Drive System prototype for people with high-level spinal cord injuries. From Wired UK: The output signals from the sensors are wirelessly transmitted to [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/o8Nek19Ixh8/tongue-piercing-steers-wheelch.html
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