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Paralyzed Patients Can Drive Wheelchairs With New Head-Tongue Technology

A disabled senior man in wheelchair indoors playing with a pet dog at home.

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Here's today's feel-good story:

Georgia Tech researchers have introduced technology that will allow paralysis victims to control their wheelchairs and smartphones with head and tongue movements.

The technology is first of its kind and is being developed in partnership with Brooks Rehabilitation.

“To see where the MagTrack project has advanced even just since the early stages of this study is incredible,” said medical director of the spinal cord injury program at Brooks Rehabilitation Geneva Tonuzi.

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