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MouthPad: A Tongue-Controlled Touchpad

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Re: MouthPad: A Tongue-Controlled Touchpad

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As someone who uses head, eye and facial gesture tracking regularly while doing long medical treatments which tie up both my hands, I would really love something like this.

I never even thought of that use case! What kind of stuff do you do on a computer while doing procedures? Like reference material? Tracking what you’ve done?

A lot less cool than you’d imagine, but hey this is real life. The computer my comfort place, so it’s there to keep my mind occupied and distracted from the treatment’s (iontophoresis) pain. A lot of feel-good scrolling, browsing HN, Reddit, my inbox, multitasking YouTube, etc. If I’m feeling particularly motivated I’ll use STT in my IDE and get some planning done.

Re: MouthPad: A Tongue-Controlled Touchpad

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Surgery robots have a tongue controller. It takes a while to train on that, but when you‘re trained your tongue muscle is the most precise way to control, say, subtle incisions deep inside the brain.

Do you have a link to those? It seems ... somewhat implausible.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11118463/

If anybody reading this wants to hire someone to devote their life to this tech, hit me up. Autistic special interest.

Re: MouthPad: A Tongue-Controlled Touchpad

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have a link to those? It seems ... somewhat implausible.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11118463/ If anybody reading this wants to hire someone to devote their life to this tech, hit me up. Autistic special interest.

That’s cool but also definitely not the same thing that GP claimed.

Re: MouthPad: A Tongue-Controlled Touchpad

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Surgery robots have a tongue controller. It takes a while to train on that, but when you‘re trained your tongue muscle is the most precise way to control, say, subtle incisions deep inside the brain.

Do you have a link to those? It seems ... somewhat implausible.

A doctor told me that a few years ago, but googling it myself now, I don‘t find anything, either. I think I missed a joke back then.

Flag my comment, it‘s wrong.

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