The promotion video popup up in my YT feed yesterday, it has been a long time that I didn't see innovation that helps people to fulfil their passion. I wish them a huge success!
MouthPad: A Tongue-Controlled Touchpad
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#42Somewhat tangentially related, I sometimes use my (above average sized) nose to swipe away notifications on my smartwatch when I'm holding things on both hands and don't feel like putting anything down. My wife always finds this incredibly amusing, but given the length I feel like I might as well use it for something!
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#43great vision and insight to problems.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a relatively low volume, customised product, likely with high development costs (even if it doesn't fall under medical device regulations, making something battery- powered that you stick in your mouth is gonna need a good safety case). It's also very valuable to those who use it, so the market can support the high price needed to cover development (the per unit costs are likely much smaller: note you can buy tw…
They definitely need to follow regulations as otherwise this misses the entire market that it's aiming at. You are far better of incorporating this into medical settings than just people with disabilities and disposable income.
For devices like this it's not super obvious how well the tradeoff works: the cost of development can multiply, even if the sale price to the insurance companies can go up correspondingly. There's a growing trend of companies developing assistive tech that is affordable without insurance, specifically because the overhead that is added by the insurance and medical device development process is so large (and often questionably valuable to a lot of patients).
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
They definitely need to follow regulations as otherwise this misses the entire market that it's aiming at. You are far better of incorporating this into medical settings than just people with disabilities and disposable income.
For devices like this it's not super obvious how well the tradeoff works: the cost of development can multiply, even if the sale price to the insurance companies can go up correspondingly. There's a growing trend of companies developing assistive tech that is affordable without insurance, specifically because the overhead that is added by the insurance and medical device development process is so large (and often que…
I'm not exclusively suggesting the US market. I'm suggesting the rest of the world where you can get a contract and sell in bulk to national healthcare. Whilst I do agree that there are a few companies like this, the negative is discovery and these being unavailable to people who are tech illiterate or unable to set it up which in this case is a significant number. Considering how useful it could be for people with significant paralysis, having a device that your health are provider can't recommend, aid you with, etc would be infuriating.
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#47Super cool. I was thinking about using a ThinkPad trackpoint instead of a touch pad. But as far as I know there is no water resistant trackpoint device.
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#48Now I'm not saying I will hook it up to the https://buttplug.io/ API, but I am saying someone is going to.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
No need to flag, I don't think - hopefully if someone's reading it, they're seeing your reply to me as well.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
No need to flag, I don't think - hopefully if someone's reading it, they're seeing your reply to me as well.
And maybe you didn't miss a joke, maybe your doctor had tongue-driven brain surgery? :P