{"id":33044,"date":"2016-12-29T01:18:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T09:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/man-suffering-from-als-creates-home-electronic-automation-system-that-uses-eye-movement-and-brain-waves"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:55:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:55:08","slug":"man-suffering-from-als-creates-home-electronic-automation-system-that-uses-eye-movement-and-brain-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/man-suffering-from-als-creates-home-electronic-automation-system-that-uses-eye-movement-and-brain-waves","title":{"rendered":"Man suffering from ALS creates home electronic automation system that uses eye movement and brain waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/man-suffering-from-als-creates-home-electronic-automation-system-that-uses-eye-movement-and-brain-waves.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nice.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>(NaturalNews) A diagnosis of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fresh.news\/2016-01-14-cannabis-oil-can-help-curb-symptoms-of-als.html\">amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)<\/a>, commonly known as Lou Gehrig\u2019s disease, was once considered a death sentence, but advanced automation technology is offering new hope to sufferers of the rare condition.<\/p>\n<p>Most ALS patients eventually face an extremely difficult choice: either die from the lack of ability to breathe once the disease progresses or undergo a tracheostomy and spend the rest of one\u2019s life on a ventilator \u2013 unable to move or speak.<\/p>\n<p>Less than 10 percent of ALS patients choose the second option, but one man who suffers from the disease is helping to develop a viable third option: an opportunity to lead a relatively independent and mobile existence with the help of automation technology that can respond to head and eye movements, or even brain waves.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/2016-12-28-man-suffering-from-als-creates-home-electronic-automation-system-that-uses-eye-movement-and-brain-waves.html\">http:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/2016&#45;12&#45;28-man-suffering-...waves.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice. (NaturalNews) A diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as Lou Gehrig\u2019s disease, was once considered a death sentence, but advanced automation technology is offering new hope to sufferers of the rare condition. Most ALS patients eventually face an extremely difficult choice: either die from the lack of ability to breathe once the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33044"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65475,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33044\/revisions\/65475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}