What good news for those who have felt left out because they couldn't use a Smartphone.
Israeli start-up pioneers smartphone for quadriplegics
Sesame Enable assists patients with voice-command controlled technology.
Oded Ben Dov with Sesame Enable user. (photo credit:Courtesy)
When Giora Livne saw tech entrepreneur Oded Ben Dov presenting his cool iPhone game on a late-night television show three years ago, he didn’t know both their lives were about to change.
The game in question, Mimo, used a special algorithm to follow players head movements, which were used to control the gameplay.
For Livne, the technology promised far more than gameplay. Six years earlier, the IDF navy veteran and electrical engineering had been paralyzed after falling off a ladder, leaving him only limited movement in his hands and neck. The next day, he tracked Ben Dov down and called him to pitch an idea: if head movement could be used to play a game, couldn’t it be used to control an iPhone?
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Israeli start-up pioneers smartphone for quadriplegics?
Israeli start-up pioneers smartphone for quadriplegics
Sesame Enable assists patients with voice-command controlled technology.
Oded Ben Dov with Sesame Enable user. (photo credit:Courtesy)
When Giora Livne saw tech entrepreneur Oded Ben Dov presenting his cool iPhone game on a late-night television show three years ago, he didn’t know both their lives were about to change.
The game in question, Mimo, used a special algorithm to follow players head movements, which were used to control the gameplay.
For Livne, the technology promised far more than gameplay. Six years earlier, the IDF navy veteran and electrical engineering had been paralyzed after falling off a ladder, leaving him only limited movement in his hands and neck. The next day, he tracked Ben Dov down and called him to pitch an idea: if head movement could be used to play a game, couldn’t it be used to control an iPhone?
Continue reading at:
Israeli start-up pioneers smartphone for quadriplegics?
