Paralyzed Regaining Mobility through an iPhone Application

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A team of researchers from the School of Engineering of Singapore’s polytechnic has achieved the impossible. They invented an smart phone application for the iPhone which will allow the user who is either disabled or paralyzed to control their wheelchairs movements through their brain’s activity.  The research team was comprised of seven members including five students and two lecturers.

A special headset is required to run this application that will help to convert the brain waves into electrical signals and transfer them to the phone. This technology will help the users have full control over their wheelchairs. In order to move the chair, the user has to focus on a physical object kept at a distance to guide and move the wheelchair. To stop the movement, the user has to just stop focusing on that object and it will cease moving any further.