Tropes

www.voicechronicle.com_tech-and-science 2015 0000468.txt

#Google Presents Steady Spoon for Shaky Hands Using advanced technology, Google has engineering a spoon that promises to make the daily lives of people suffering from tremors easier. The spoon uses a number of algorithms and helps in steadying the tremors so that the patients can eat without spilling the food. The shaking pattern of a hand is sensed by the spoon which then instantly adjusts itself to remain in balance. Spokeswoman Katelin Jabbari said e want to help people in their daily lives today and hopefully increase understanding of disease in the long run. Many other devices have marked their presence for helping the people suffering from tremors like pen grips weighted utensils and rocker knives. However, according to the experts, Google has utilized the technology in a unique way. Dr. Jill Ostrem, a neurologist at the University of California San francisco Medical center, commented t totally novel. Ostrem, who helped the inventors with her advice, opines that this spoon with a fork attachment is a remarkable asset. She further added have some patients who couldn eat independently, they had to be fed, and now they can eat on their own. It doesn cure the disease they still have tremor but it a very positive change. It was in September when Google indulged into no-shake utensil business and acquired a small startup called Lift Labs funded by National of Institutes of Health. Over 10 million people across the globe, including Google cofounder Sergey Brin mother, suffer from tremors and Parkinson disease. Anupam Pathak, the founder of Lift Lab, appreciated the shift of a four-person startup in San francisco to the colossal Google campus in Mountain view which has encouraged them to enhance their creativity. Google (x) Life sciences is the department where his team works. It is involved also in developing a contact lens for measuring glucose levels in tears for diabetics and researching the role of nanoparticles in blood in diseases detection. Clinical trials have revealed that the spoon reduces shaking by about 76 percent. Pathak is also hoping to incorporate sensors in the spoon which would help the researchers to have a better understanding about tremors and devise therapies to alleviate them s

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