Robotic Arm

By Mike Schultz in Technology on

Sounds an awful lot like the story recounted in The Electric Mind [https://mikeschultz.ghost.io/electric-mind/], but encouraging nonetheless. [Using the Brain to Control a Robotic Arm]…

A New Empi

By Mike Schultz in Technology on

I was given an Empi machine Tuesday. It’s an electrotherapy device that ” produces a mild electrical current transmitted via lead wires to electrodes placed on the skin.” This is how it looks on my arm. On Wednesday, I saw this via @FastCompany [http://www.fastcodesign.com/1671273/watch-body-parts-get-zapped-to-the-beat-in-this-wild-music-video#1]…

Electric Mind

By Mike Schultz in Technology on

> In The Electric Mind [http://blog.atavist.com/post/23186952683/in-the-electric-mind-jessica-benko-tells-the] , Jessica Benko tells the story of a radical new technology, a pioneering group of researchers, and one woman’s effort to transcend her paralysis. It took me a little while to realize that I had seen this story…

Steven Peace

By Mike Schultz in Technology on

Oscar Pistorius running in the Olympics on blades was cool; Steven Peace [http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/08/21/paralyzed-after-massive-stroke-cyclist-en-route-to-london-paralympics/] riding in the Paralympics with Bioness might be even cooler.…

Backyard Brains and OT

By Mike Schultz in Technology on

Jad Abumrad posted this yesterday. > After my talk on Sunday, this guy show me how to hook up a severed cockroach leg to an iPad pic.twitter.com/LwMTcCVZ [http://t.co/LwMTcCVZ] — Jad Abumrad (@JadAbumrad) August 21, 2012 [https://twitter.com/JadAbumrad/statuses/237901870914469889] As the video from…

People Helping People

By Mike Schultz in Health Care on

The pull quote from this presentation by Ramona Pierson is what got me: “We didn’t have words like crowd-sourcing and radical collaboration when I had my accident. But the concept held true — people working with people to rebuild me; people working with people to re-educate me. I wouldn’t…