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Newicon work on Earswitch — an exciting medical software project set to transform lives
We’re very excited to announce that Newicon is working on the software side of a new medical technology that’s being developed by GP Dr Nick Gompertz with a team of researchers at the University of Bath.
Innovative medical tech
The technology is called Earswitch, and it hopes to offer people with conditions such as Motor Neurone Disease (MND) new ways of communicating via a computer.
The technology will allow people to communicate by tensing a tiny muscle to operate an assistive keyboard, like the one used by the late Professor Stephen Hawking. But unlike Stephen Hawking’s device, which relied on
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