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Bengaluru's Incluzza helps Google bring accessible gaming closer homeProject Gameface, is an open source, hands-free, on-device, AI-powered ‘mouse’ developed by Google that allows phones, computers to be cont...
Neuralink says implant had issues after first human surgeryIn the weeks following the January surgery on patient Noland Arbaugh, some of the electrode-studded threads that sit in the brain tissue be...
Elon Musk's Neuralink seeks first human volunteer for groundbreaking brain chip implant trialThe company is actively searching for a human volunteer, ideally a quadriplegic under 40, willing to undergo a revolutionary brain implant ...
San Diego's surfing therapy dog Ricochet dies at 15The Golden Retriever was diagnosed with liver cancer last August.
When your mind lets you control a robotic arm, restore the sense of touchAdding a sense of touch drastically improves the functionality of prosthetics for quadriplegics.
Spanish parliament approves bill to allow euthanasiaThe draft law will allow someone suffering from a "serious and incurable disease" or from a "debilitating or chronic condition" which the p...
3 Indian-origin conferred with Australia's highest civilian awardOther who received the top honours were a Queensland based Biomedical scientist Alan Mackay-Sim who was named Australian of the Year this y...
UP man comes to the rescue of paralysed US manAn US research team headed by an Indian scientist has developed a technology that lets him control his limbs using just his “thoughts“.
Thums Up to launch 5000 km Veer K2K road expeditionThe Thums Up Veer K2K dovetails into the Accessible India campaign launched by PM Narendra Modi on International Day of Persons with Disabi...
How entrepreneur Ashok Vohra uses talent & technology to empower poor womenHe is devising a 12-week programme with entrepreneurfriend Anand Anandkumar, founder, Bugworks Research, to provide computer literacy.
Actor Nathaniel Marston passes away at 40 after a car accidentThe "One Life to Live" star passed away two weeks after sustaining injuries from a car accident.
Improve delivery of schemes for disabled: President Pranab MukherjeePresident Pranab Mukherjee today called for reinforcing efforts to put better delivery mechanisms in place for entitlements to persons with...
ET Recommendation: Watch The Intouchables movieThe film actually became the second-biggest box office phenomenon in France in 2011, making it one of those periodic French films that go s...
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In 2008, the historian Tony Judt was diagnosed with ALS, the disease named after the famous baseball-player Lou Gehrig, which has also conf...
Betting on one’s lifeLIFE intervenes in the form of a girl on a bridge, when Akash goes to the George Washington channel to commit suicide in Anjana Anjanee . T...
Listen with your heartClose encounters of any kind with intensive care units are designed to humble. Of course they don’t always highlight the ‘deficiencies’ of ...
Do more and remain happyEB White, the American writer, once asked James Thurber, his cartoonist friend, about his mother-in-law : “How's she now?” “As compared to ...