This reminds me of Google's Liftware, which does something similar but for cutlery.
A prototype watch, raising hope for Parkinson’s
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#12> As part of her work, Zhang researched the root cause of tremors. She spent six months, off and on, building prototypes. She sometimes worked in her London home, soldering wires to PC boards and tinkering with coin cell motors to create vibrations. She tested early versions with four other people with Parkinson’s, producing promising results for three, spurring the idea forward, she says.
This paragraph reads like the solution is not as simple as strapping a vibrator to a wristband. So where are those results documented? Does anyone have an idea where the source code and schematics are for the singular Emma device prototype?
Edit: I have not been able to find source code yet. A reddit thread about the device [1] from December 2016 links to a screenshot [2] of a BBC documentary from which one can infer that Zhang used six motors for the Emma device and timed them in a specific way.
Edit 2: I noticed that my other HN comment [3] asking if this article is a PR submarine was first upvoted until it was shown at the top of the thread. It was then downvoted until it moved to the bottom of the thread. If a HN mod is reading this: Does that voting pattern seem normal?
Edit 3: Now this comment is also receiving downvotes?
Edit 4: The BBC has a GitHub repository containing other code related to the documentary. There has been an issue opened in January 2017 [4] from a person who wants to help his father who has Parkinson's. No source code seems to have been released since then.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Parkinsons/comments/5hh2fx/emmas_wa...
[2] http://i.imgur.com/0q0QHsj.png
Re: A prototype watch, raising hope for Parkinson’s
#13So is this what a PR submarine [1] looks like? I remembered that I had read such a story before and found that Emma could also write again in March 2017 [2], December 2016 [3], November 2016 [4] and probably other months between now and then. [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html [2] https://theassistiveblog.areavoices.com/2017/03/30/emma-a-we... [3] https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-researcher-creates-wearabl…
In what way is this submarining?
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#14So is this what a PR submarine [1] looks like? I remembered that I had read such a story before and found that Emma could also write again in March 2017 [2], December 2016 [3], November 2016 [4] and probably other months between now and then. [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html [2] https://theassistiveblog.areavoices.com/2017/03/30/emma-a-we... [3] https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-researcher-creates-wearabl…
How can this be a PR piece? For starters, there isn't even a product. And most important, this is Microsoft, not some up and coming start-up that's craving for exposure. Microsoft is a behemoth when it comes to ad spending. If they had a product to market they wouldn't need some native advertising article, they'd go in guns blazing.
Re: A prototype watch, raising hope for Parkinson’s
#15So is this what a PR submarine [1] looks like? I remembered that I had read such a story before and found that Emma could also write again in March 2017 [2], December 2016 [3], November 2016 [4] and probably other months between now and then. [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html [2] https://theassistiveblog.areavoices.com/2017/03/30/emma-a-we... [3] https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-researcher-creates-wearabl…
How can this be a PR piece? For starters, there isn't even a product. And most important, this is Microsoft, not some up and coming start-up that's craving for exposure. Microsoft is a behemoth when it comes to ad spending. If they had a product to market they wouldn't need some native advertising article, they'd go in guns blazing.
Microsoft is actively rebranding itself from "evil megacorporation" to "innovative doer of good".
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Re: A prototype watch, raising hope for Parkinson’s
#17So is this what a PR submarine [1] looks like? I remembered that I had read such a story before and found that Emma could also write again in March 2017 [2], December 2016 [3], November 2016 [4] and probably other months between now and then. [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html [2] https://theassistiveblog.areavoices.com/2017/03/30/emma-a-we... [3] https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-researcher-creates-wearabl…
How can this be a PR piece? For starters, there isn't even a product. And most important, this is Microsoft, not some up and coming start-up that's craving for exposure. Microsoft is a behemoth when it comes to ad spending. If they had a product to market they wouldn't need some native advertising article, they'd go in guns blazing.
The story is a Microsoft blog post - it is definitionally PR. Still a good story though.
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#18I have "Essential Tremors", which can be very frustrating. I can write, but there have been times, especially in school, where having tremors made my writing quite a bit messier than if I didn't have them. Something like this could be really interesting in the future, not just for people who have Parkinson's but also other causes of tremors.
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#19So is this what a PR submarine [1] looks like? I remembered that I had read such a story before and found that Emma could also write again in March 2017 [2], December 2016 [3], November 2016 [4] and probably other months between now and then. [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html [2] https://theassistiveblog.areavoices.com/2017/03/30/emma-a-we... [3] https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-researcher-creates-wearabl…
It's PR, but it's not a submarine.
Also I'm not sure why you think it's suspicious that this was written about before. It's an amazing result and clearly it didn't happen overnight so there were earlier opportunities for a writeup.
Re: A prototype watch, raising hope for Parkinson’s
#20what about just adding a heavy watch? that would at least cut down the frequency of the tremors, which could help the brain get its act together