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Used at home in a person’s day-to-day life, without the need for doctors and engineers
58 years old woman was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 2008.
Relies on an eye-tracking device to communicate – but doesn’t work well outdoors.
Existing implants tend to need recalibrating by a team of engineers on a daily basis.
University Medical Center Utrecht device has 2 electrodes that record brain activity and wirelessly sends a signal to an external computer tablet.
After 6 months training patient has 95% accuracy and takes 20 seconds to select a letter.
