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October 5, 2009

Tongue Driver


With funding from the National Science Foundation, Maysan Ghovanloo at Georgia Tech designs technology that allows disabled people to control everything - from wheelchairs to computers - with their tongue! We visit his lab and meet Jason DiSanto, who is paralyzed from the neck down. DiSanto is testing the tongue controller by navigating his wheelchair around a small course.

Credit: National Science Foundation


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