At the core of any assistive technology is finding a way to do something with whatever abilities the user has available. This can be especially difficult in the case of quadriplegia sufferers, the ...

After a diving accident left Jason DiSanto paralyzed from the neck down in 2009, he had to learn how to navigate life from a powered wheelchair, which he controls with a sip-and-puff system. Users sip ...

Puff and Suck (or Sip and Puff) systems allow people with little to no arm mobility to more easily interact with computers by using a straw-like unit as an input device. [Ana] tells us that the usual ...

For patients who no longer have the use of their limbs and torso, life must be navigated through a powered wheelchair – which users often control by blowing into a plastic straw to execute basic ...

Individuals with paralysis in a new clinical trial were able to use a tongue-controlled technology to access computers and execute commands for their wheelchairs at speeds that were significantly ...

Accident victim Jason DiSanto is helping develop the new chair with the Georgia Institute of Technology It uses a headset and a magnet embedded in the user%27s tongue ...

Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Jake Veltman of Michigan has been paralyzed from the neck down since a 2005 car accident but he is still able to hunt. Veltman uses a method called Sip and Puff that allows people ...

Most people who are quadriplegics use sip-and-puff wheelchairs; they blow or suck into a straw to direct their chairs. But movement is limited to left, right, forward, and backward. New technology ...

An assistive technologies hackathon at MIT has kicked off development of a low-cost sip-and-puff joystick controller that allows the user to operate a smartphone, tablet or laptop. "Puffin," as the ...

After a diving accident left Jason Disanto paralyzed from the neck down in 2009, he had to learn how to navigate life from a powered wheelchair, which he controls with a sip-and-puff system. Users sip ...