Digital therapy toy for stroke patients lights up for a game of whack-a-mole

For stroke survivors, relearning to use one's arms and fingers can be a long process with tedious exercises, while they get back on the road to normal life.

Research suggests that the process can be more effective if you include a fun element to it, and new digital versions of traditional rehabilitation toys are attempting to breathe fresh life into the process.

Neofect, a medtech startup from South Korea, has been developing tech therapy devices targeted to motivate the patient.

One of its new devices is a pegboard that lights up, and can accommodate new games with software updates. One of the pegboard’s programs, for example, is a whack-a-mole game that lights up a peg for several seconds, depending on the level, directing the user to place the peg before the light changes position.  Read more...