<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8e3646c9-e7f7-4de1-bd3c-97252d006443/9B7E4339-33BE-4629-9889-A3F1D90E6FD4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227065.900-robotic-wheelchair-controlled-by-thought-alone.html" href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227065.900-robotic-wheelchair-controlled-by-thought-alone.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227065.900-robotic-wheelchair-controlled-by-thought-alone.html"><P class="infuse">PARALYSED people could navigate around buildings using a robotic wheelchair that can be controlled by thoughts alone.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227065.900-robotic-wheelchair-controlled-by-thought-alone.html"><P class="infuse">The <A target="nsarticle" href="http://webdiis.unizar.es/~jminguez/wheelchair/">wheelchair</A> is designed for people with severe neuromuscular disabilities, and can even be used in crowded or unfamiliar surroundings, says <A target="nsarticle" href="http://webdiis.unizar.es/~jminguez/">Javier Minguez</A>, head of the team at the University of Zaragoza in Spain that is developing the chair.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227065.900-robotic-wheelchair-controlled-by-thought-alone.html"><P class="infuse">To direct the wheelchair, users concentrate on one of several possible destinations in a 3D map of their surroundings, which appears on a screen in front of them. Users wear a skullcap with 16 electrodes positioned around their scalp. These detect millisecond-long fluctuations in brain activity, which happen when the user looks at the point on the screen that coincides with a target destination.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9B7E4339-33BE-4629-9889-A3F1D90E6FD4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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