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General Category => The Knowledge => Health & Fitness => Topic started by: andrewc on 05 January, 2014, 12:21:18 am

Title: Stabilised spoon for people with hand tremors.
Post by: andrewc on 05 January, 2014, 12:21:18 am

http://boingboing.net/2014/01/03/tremor-correcting-steadicam-cu.html#more-277727 (http://boingboing.net/2014/01/03/tremor-correcting-steadicam-cu.html#more-277727)

http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/18/lift-labs-raises-1m-to-save-people-from-the-embarrassment-of-eating-with-parkinsons-disease/ (http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/18/lift-labs-raises-1m-to-save-people-from-the-embarrassment-of-eating-with-parkinsons-disease/)

Clever stuff,   I wonder if they'll do a spork ?

Title: Re: Stabilised spoon for people with hand tremors.
Post by: Kim on 05 January, 2014, 12:30:34 am

Many years ago, while researching something completely different, I read a paper about developing software to recognise the characteristic frequency profile of Parkinsons tremors, and filter them out of mouse input.  It was stunningly effective.

(That said, my experience of family members with other forms of hand tremors is that they greatly preferred to drive computers with a keyboard.)