Toyota’s high tech wheelchair
Toyota has developed a wheelchair that can be steered through a device that reads brain waves:
Past systems required several seconds to read brain waves, but the new technology requires only 125 milliseconds — or 125 thousandths of a second.
The person in the wheelchair wears a cap that can read brain signals, which are relayed to a brain scan electroencephalograph, or EEG, on the electrically powered wheelchair, and then analyzed in a computer program.
Research into mobility is part of Toyota’s larger strategy to go beyond automobiles in helping people get around in new ways.
The new system allows the person on the wheelchair to turn left or right and go forward, almost instantly, according to researchers.
Coming to a stop still requires more than a thought. The person in the wheelchair must puff up a cheek, which is picked up in a detector worn on the face.
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Is this for real? Amazing technology!
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Wait a second. The text above says “Coming to a stop still requires more than a thought. The person in the wheelchair must puff up a cheek, which is picked up in a detector worn on the face.” However, the video says that, to stop, ‘you just have to stop picturing the things that cause it to move.’ Which is correct?
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I read about this on a German website. There it said that puffing up your cheeks is equivalent to an emergency stop command.
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