Researchers at Imperial College London have developed an affordable technology that could allow millions of people suffering from ailments like Parkinson’s, muscular dystrophy, or spinal cord injury to interact with computers--using just their eyes. The finding brings new hope to many patients that computing--and the many improvements to quality of life the computing brings--could soon be relatively simple and affordable for those who are paralyzed or otherwise disabled.
It’s anyone’s nightmare--to suffer an injury or be diagnosed with a disease that could lead to “locked-in syndrome.” One feature of locked-in syndrome, though, is that occasionally mobility remains in one part of the body--the eyes. Famously, the French author of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly dictated his memoirs solely through eye-movements--one letter at a time, and with the help of an assistant.
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