August 9, 2006 4:01 AM PDT
Technion Professor Yoram Baram has created a visual feedback "walker," a pair of glasses with a small built-in LCD screen. The small screen creates a pattern of black-and-white floor tiles. Patients with multiple sclerosis or some other diseases that hinder mobility can walk again on their own with the aid of the screen. These patients often become afraid of crossing surfaces or floors with few visual markers. But when wearing the glasses, they can use the "tiles" projected on the LCD screen and thus on the room around them, as visual markers.
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