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 ...

Lots of us have– thanks to repetative stress injuries– developed mobility issues that we have to work around when using computers. Maybe it’s a trackball instead of a mouse, or a split keyboard, or ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A special casting reel lets a person with severe paralysis cast a rod and reel, work the lure, and reel in fish. The reel, called Ken’s Power Caster, comes from engineers at Adaptive Creations in ...

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 ...