MouthPad: A Tongue-Controlled Touchpad

(augmental.tech)

25 points | by ZaninAndrea 4 hours ago ago

5 comments

  • gabriel666smith 27 minutes ago

    This looks great for accessibility specifically. My fiancee is partially-sighted, so (while not directly related) I'm extremely supportive of developments in assistive tech. There's a lot of difference to people's lives that can be made.

    For me personally - maybe because I'm not a very nice person, or maybe it's an association that many people would make - clever as the pun in the product name is, it does make me think of saying "mousepad" with a lisp. This seems like a non-ideal association.

  • astrashe2 31 minutes ago

    This seems really clever. I don't know anything about what it takes to serve the targeted needs, so I could be wrong. But it's the sort of thing that pops out as really cool and useful, tech that makes the world better.

  • anilgulecha an hour ago

    This is a very novel UX and assistive tech, and I know more users globally (and in India for me) would find this useful.

  • newsclues an hour ago

    Haven’t these existed before for military purposes?

    • elric an hour ago

      I remember reading about tongue based sonar for divers, where the output of the sonar would stimulate electrodes on various parts of the tongue to indicate relative direction.