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Mindware Forum[Mindware Forum] The initial project demonstrates how a paralyzed patient could communicate by using a mental typewriter alone - without touching the keyboard. In the case of serious accident or illness, a patient’s limbs can be paralyzed, severely restricting communication with the outside world.

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[Byz.org] Trends: Super aged population: "The typewriter is an ordinary Olivetti "Lettera 22" but electronics automatically sends the typed letter as an email to the intended person: through the use of various sensors concealed in the body, a small chip interprets all the mechanical operations of letter writing. When the letter is finished and the paper pulled out of the typewriter's carriage, the email is sent via a telephone cable that fits into the back of the machine."

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