Device allows patients with tetraplegia to use laptop with their eyes: 3 takeaways

Richmond-based Virginia Commonwealth University Health Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation offers patients with tetraplegia a way to utilize a laptop with their eyes, according to Healthcanal.

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Here are three takeaways:

 

1. VCU researchers created a mobile cart equipped with an extendable arm on which a laptop rests.

 

2. Above the keyboard, a thin, eye-gazer device called Tobii uses infrared technology to perform a computer mouse’s functions.

 

3. Patients use their eyes to perform mouse and keyboard functions.

 

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