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For veterans with PTSD, tinnitus can be unbearable. This scientist is finding ways to soothe them.
What can silence a ringing ear?
Designing spaces with marginalized people in mind makes them better for everyone
How the ‘curb-cut effect’ makes the world easier to navigate.
Designing for accessibility: From Frida Kahlo’s corsets to Franklin Roosevelt’s leg braces
Small innovations can go a long way.
SXSW 2015: How Extreme Bionics Will Rid The World Of Disability
Robotic limbs will become an advantage, not an impediment
First Steps of a Cyborg
Austin Whitney didn’t want to graduate from college in a wheelchair. So he and the student engineers at U.C. Berkeley’s “Kaz Lab” built a machine that allowed him to stand up and walk across the commencement stage
Meet RatCar, a Japanese Robot Car Controlled By a Rat’s Brain
Robots are a major part of the cultural fabric of Japan; they’re performing weddings, buying groceries and keeping people company....
Robotic Arm Designed to Make Quadriplegics Lives Easier is Actually “Too Easy,” Testers Say
Patients seek balance between challenge and assistance
REX, the Robotic Exoskeleton, Gives Paraplegic Man a Bionic Set of Legs
We’ve seen robotic exoskeletons before — there’s Lockheed’s HULC that’s designed to augment soldier performance, and then there’s Raytheon’s XOS...
Toyota Demonstrates a Wheelchair Controlled With Brain Waves
For those in a wheelchair with limited mobility, Toyota’s new brainwave technology is a marvel. The rider of the wheelchair...
Control a Robot with Your Mind
Mind control technology reads thoughts, prompts a robot's actions
