Though ALS is a progressive, crippling condition, technology can help patients maintain some sense of normalcy. The good folks at Not Impossible Now, an organization that’s developing cheap and practical solutions for disabled people, has been working on an off-the-shelf system for eye-based typing. Relying on cameras for tracking, the software has the user look at different quadrants on a screen to control which letters to type. Here’s a video from the group about the project and the man that helped motivate it:
Flashback: TEDMED 2014: “Not Impossible Now” is Saving The World One Project at a Time
