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The tongue muscle can be trained. This is also useful for at least one other activity.
I switched to using a glue stick for mailing letters.
If this one is pretty inexpensive and can be bought without a doctor prescription, this would be a great improvement. Out of curiosity, I had looked into getting a tongue-controlled device some years ago (to complement an eye tracking interface I had made for playing a specific game without keyboard/controller as a challenge), but had run into these two blockers.
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I switched to using a glue stick for mailing letters.
That's also a neat way of avoiding the "poisoned reply envelope" trick in case someone's trying to murder you
However, for me it seems that I can't eat things when wearing it, or it can be hard to clean.
Jokes aside, it's really great to see innovations like this in human-machine interfaces.
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1997! Why hasn't this become mainstream?
Define 'mainstream' ? The market for this thing is pretty limited. And tongue controlled controllers aren't a novelty, they are used sometimes, but again - they are mostly one-time devices.
Wonderful accessibility aside, that's a brilliant name. It's just fun to say.
> Initial 3D intraoral dental scan > Custom-designed MouthPad^ device This seems expensive. I hope the future brings a more general version.
The custom design is simply a matter of business process on top of a standardized scan.