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A prototype watch, raising hope for Parkinson’s

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Re: A prototype watch, raising hope for Parkinson’s

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Post by hashhar »

averagewall wrote: post #80

It's great to see someone helping the symptoms and improving quality of life. It wasn't until a family member got Parkinson's that I realized it's not just shaking hands, it's a terminal illness with progressive neurodegeneration. Usually with dementia happening alongside the physical symptoms. It's about as scary as Alzheimer's.

There is a trio of neuro-degenerative diseases which are horrible and have no known cure or even treatment to make the symptoms manageable. The worst part is that the person who gets them suffers as much, if not more, than the people they know and they get worse over time. Huntington's, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.

Re: A prototype watch, raising hope for Parkinson’s

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Post by Waterluvian »

khazhoux wrote: post #39

Looks like nice work. I think. I couldn't find the details and didn't want to spend the full 15 minutes reading. This style of writing is very frustrating. 1. Introduction. We set up for something dramatic. In this case, a Parkinson's sufferer is about to see her life changed. In another recent story, a maternity nurse is about to birth her first child, and we were teased she would die after giving birth. Now we're a…

I read a long winded essay on the filming of Blues Brothers. It was a perfect writing style because the message was found in the layers of anecdotes and details.

When I want to learn facts, I want to read something structured like a 9th grade essay.

Re: A prototype watch, raising hope for Parkinson’s

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Post by wglb »

sanj wrote: post #62
wglb wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's my error. I usually remove said cruft before submitting but neglected to do this time.

Sorry, I was asking more why HN didn't do it automatically.

I chatted with mods and it is tricky to do with full generality.

Re: A prototype watch, raising hope for Parkinson’s

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Post by dclowd9901 »

jakobegger wrote: post #69
khazhoux wrote: post #39

Looks like nice work. I think. I couldn't find the details and didn't want to spend the full 15 minutes reading. This style of writing is very frustrating. 1. Introduction. We set up for something dramatic. In this case, a Parkinson's sufferer is about to see her life changed. In another recent story, a maternity nurse is about to birth her first child, and we were teased she would die after giving birth. Now we're a…

And with all that back story, they didn't even answer the most important question: WHERE DID THE IDEA COME FROM? How did the engineer know to she had to build a vibrating wristband?

Probably from that vibrating spoon idea.

https://www.liftware.com

Re: A prototype watch, raising hope for Parkinson’s

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Post by rtkwe »

pscsbs wrote: post #11

This reminds me of Google's Liftware, which does something similar but for cutlery. https://www.liftware.com/

That's been mentioned as one of her inspirations in a couple places, even though they're two very different mechanisms. This bracelet seems to actually interrupt the tremor somehow while the spoon just stabilized itself like an active camera gimbal.

Re: A prototype watch, raising hope for Parkinson’s

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Post by snvzz »

khazhoux wrote: post #39

Looks like nice work. I think. I couldn't find the details and didn't want to spend the full 15 minutes reading. This style of writing is very frustrating. 1. Introduction. We set up for something dramatic. In this case, a Parkinson's sufferer is about to see her life changed. In another recent story, a maternity nurse is about to birth her first child, and we were teased she would die after giving birth. Now we're a…

You got that far? Congrats.

I couldn't stand it. After the introduction, I started scrolling, saw the general structure and just closed it.

It was the most unpleasant text I looked at in a very long time.

Re: A prototype watch, raising hope for Parkinson’s

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Post by seltzered_ »

khazhoux wrote: post #39

Looks like nice work. I think. I couldn't find the details and didn't want to spend the full 15 minutes reading. This style of writing is very frustrating. 1. Introduction. We set up for something dramatic. In this case, a Parkinson's sufferer is about to see her life changed. In another recent story, a maternity nurse is about to birth her first child, and we were teased she would die after giving birth. Now we're a…

There's a video embedded which does a decent job: https://youtu.be/k9Rm-U9havE

Re: A prototype watch, raising hope for Parkinson’s

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Post by ghvknvgvh »

Waterluvian wrote: post #83
khazhoux wrote: post #39

Looks like nice work. I think. I couldn't find the details and didn't want to spend the full 15 minutes reading. This style of writing is very frustrating. 1. Introduction. We set up for something dramatic. In this case, a Parkinson's sufferer is about to see her life changed. In another recent story, a maternity nurse is about to birth her first child, and we were teased she would die after giving birth. Now we're a…

I read a long winded essay on the filming of Blues Brothers. It was a perfect writing style because the message was found in the layers of anecdotes and details. When I want to learn facts, I want to read something structured like a 9th grade essay.

Link?
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