“There's a lot of fun things I'm doing nowadays … that I couldn't do before,” says , attorney and quadriplegic Josh Basile. Using a new device called the MouthPad, he's playing game apps with his son that were too fast for him before, and racing bots through the house with his daughter “with precision accuracy,” he says.
MouthPad by San Francisco-based tech firm Augmental fits in the mouth like a retainer and helps you control devices with your tongue. For Basile, it works in quiet settings such as meetings and conferences, and in cars or airplanes that are often too loud to use voice recognition. Basile’s fiancée is a big fan too. “She [would] hear me say on YouTube, ‘Swipe up, swipe up’ for 30 minutes straight, and now … she doesn't have to hear that, … especially at night in bed,” he says.
Read the New Mobility story on how this revolutionary tech is helping Josh and others with disabilities — and will soon have uses even beyond those without disabilities. https://newmobility.com/mouthsticks-and-beyond/
