Real-Life Assistive IT

As you can see from this video (Video) on YouTube this boy had some motor body problems because of a motorbike accident and now he can use the computer with his tongue and use every functionality over it. This is actually amazing how humans can develop themselves in order to obtain control over things even though they just can control their brain (in a biomotor way).

There are also some other good examples of this assistive IT, the most famous is Stephen Hawking, ACAT is the program he used in order to select characters and words which also means: assistive context-aware toolkit. It consists on an infrared switch that was attached to Hawking's glasses and would detect movement he made with his cheek that would stop the cursor or mouse from moving on the screen. How good can be the IT development to make someone that apparently cannot speak become a really famous and useful scientific disseminator.

I think there is still not enough investment in this kind of biotechnical engineering because some people still cannot use all this services. Of course each person has different needs and different specifications but we cannot forget about them because as Hawking had also this complicated disease he helped a lot in a scientific way to the society.

Also I wanted just to have in consideration the cyborgs, it is interesting how much the technology has been introduced in our lives and this man called Neil Harbisson has caught my attention so much because of the anthem he has on his head in order to "listen to the colours" check it here! Video 2.