Brain Implant Using AI Software Allows Paralyzed Man to Translate His Thoughts Into Handwriting and Text
Stanford University researchers have discovered that brain implanted AI software allowed a paralyzed man to translate thoughts into text.
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A Robotic Neck Brace to Help Patients With ALS or Other Neurological Conditions Keep Their Head Upright
Researchers of the ROAR Lab within Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science at Columbia University have build a truly agile and necessary robotic…
Touching Short Film About a Photographer Who Turned to Making Pickles After He Was Diagnosed With ALS
“Pickle Man” by Natasya Popov is a touching, heartfelt short documentary about former-photographer Arthur Cohen, who, after being given the devastating diagnosis of Amyotrophic Lateral…
A Cafe in Tokyo Features Robotic Servers Remotely Controlled by Paralyzed Humans at Home or in Hospital
In April 2016, the Japanese robotics company Ory Laboratories opened up a test cafe using their robots as servers. While the idea of robotic waitstaff…
ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Co-Founder Pat Quinn Hears His Own Recreated Voice For the First Time
ALS has lost this round In 2013, a young man in Boston named Pat Quinn had just received a devastating diagnosis of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis…
The Great Stephen Hawking Interviewed by Neil deGrasse Tyson Just Ten Days Before His Death
Stephen Hawking, the enormously respected, award-winning quantum physicist, cosmologist and author died peacefully on Wednesday, March 14, 2018 after having lived with the motor neuron…
Binging With Babish Host Creates a Hot Pepper Challenge for ALS In Memory of a Good Friend
In a simultaneously heartbreaking and inspirational episode of “Binging With Babish“, host Andrew Rea revealed his normally hidden face to talk about Garmt van Soest,…
Woman Paralyzed by ALS Can Communicate Again With a Speech Computer Controlled by Her Mind
Researchers at UMC Utrecht have given a brave woman who is completely paralyzed by Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and subsequent Locked-In Syndrome, an amazing opportunity…
How Lou ‘Iron Horse’ Gehrig Knew When It Was Time For Him to Retire From Baseball
In a short clip from the Smithsonian Channel series Sports Detectives, several sports writers speak to the incredible talent of Lou Gehrig, his long-running attendance…
Homer Simpson Takes on the ‘ALS Ice Bucket Challenge’
FOX has released a video where Homer Simpson from The Simpsons participates in the “ALS Ice Bucket Challenge”, a challenge that was created to raise…