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November 01, 2004

BehindTheMedspeak: Think-A-Move creates a tongue-controlled computer

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This bleeding-edge company specializes in technology that uses the human ear as an OUTPUT device.

Yes, you read correctly.

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Not input, but output.

Their patented InnerVoice technology is put into use via three innovative routes:

• Virtual Mouse - translates tongue movements into computer commands to perform tasks

• Think-A-Move - translates thoughts into commands to command computers and other operating systems

• InnerVoice Pro - uses the ear canal as a conduit for the human voice in discrete communication

In all three technologies, the main hardware is a non-invasive hearing-aid-type device placed in the ear.

Coming very soon - well before spinal cord anastomosis and restoration of function in paraplegics and quadriplegics - will be the liberation of the spirits currently trapped in their useless meat shells.

Just as wheelchair users using Dean Kamen's revolutionary iBot,

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which raises them to normal eye level, suddenly felt empowered, so will they soar on the wings of these wonderful innovations from Think-A-Move.

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