Ever imagined how a person in coma (who is completely paralyzed) can communicate or draw?
Well EyeWriter is the answer for them.
It enabled Graffiti writers and artists with paralysis to draw, using only their eyes
EyeWriter is an imagination of engineers from Ebeling Group, the Not Impossible Foundation and Graffiti Research Lab. It’s an Embedded system that consist of eyeball tracking glasses and an in build software in them. Eyeball tracking glasses (as the name suggest) tracks the movements of patients eye and with the help of the embedded system’s software it converts the signal and present in a drawing format on to the screen.
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So, if I want to draw a circle I will roll my eyeballs 360 degree and those tracking glasses will track my eyeballs movement and with the help of the software it will display a circle on the screen. Why only circles, one can draw alphabets, characters, numbers etc… and thus communicate. EyeWriter is really an effective medical boon.
This device was specially created for L.A. based Tony "Tempt" Quan (a graffiti artist) who was suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease in 2003. After using EyeWriter Quan exclaimed that, "It feels like taking a breath after being held underwater for five minutes.” Now that’s koool!!!
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Cost just $50
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