Eyedrivomatic Featured in the Daily Mail.
The wheelchair controlled using EYE movements: Inventor with motor neurone disease creates tracking device to help disabled people move around.
The wheelchair controlled using EYE movements: Inventor with motor neurone disease creates tracking device to help disabled people move around.
Eye-Driven Wheelchair Gives Quadriplegics More Independence
Karen Pearce’s presentation at a conference for ALS/MND professionals, where she goes over the features and benefits of the Eyedrivomatic. Among other things, she covers how the product came about, talking about Steve and Patrick’s “determination to ensure that people can maintain their independence against pretty tough odds”.
Patrick and Kathy discuss how having to live with MND brought to the forefront of his mind the value of autonomous freedom of movement. He recognized the need for a product like the Eyedrivomatic, which helps to add independence back to one’s life when confronted with a living situation like his or similar, and worked to bring it from concept to a functional, award-winning product. They also describe the experience of finding out that the Eyedrivomatic was a winner of the 2015 Hackaday award for inventors!
Steve describes the Eyedrivomatic and demonstrates its use for the BBC news!
Jono Stenberg talks about how the eyedrivomatic brought a degree of independence into his life for the first time in his life. Jono’s family also talks about how much joy the Eyedrivomatic has brought into his life. Steve Evans talks about his part in the Eyedrivomatic development process, and the show goes over the general background and operation of this “amazing, simple, and cheap device that is changing lives”.
Southeast Today talks about “the disabled Sussex man gaining independence for the first time with technology that lets him steer [his wheelchair] with his eyes”. “Eyedrivomatic gives me greater independence; I can now go where I want.” – Jono Stenberg
Patrick Joyce, the inventor of the Eyedrivomatic is featured on the BBC after winning the Hackaday 2015 prize.