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It significantly enhances the lives of individuals with disabilities, allowing individuals to experience active, independent and satisfying lives.
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Summary Inventors at Georgia Tech have developed the Tongue Drive System (TDS), an unobtrusive, wireless, and wearable device that allows users to accurately track their tongue movements in real time, allowing them the freedom to move around, talk, and be involved in physical or cognitive activity. Utilizing a small magnet attached to the tongue and magnetic sensors mounted to headgear, tongue movements are transmitted to a portable computing device and translated into commands. TDS thus enables the tongue to serve as a capable and flexible interface between the user’s brain and the surrounding environment (Brain-Tongue-Computer Interfacing, BTCI).