Control your environment through brain commands
Envisioning the future of healthcare through wearable technology
Many patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s Disease) and other neurodegenerative conditions live every day with a frustrating inability to do small, everyday tasks, such as turning on the lights, changing the volume on the TV, or even communicating with their friends and loved ones. Today, a first-ever proof of concept demonstrates how wearable technology and consumer products can be brought together with digital innovations to let a person with no mobility control their environment using brain commands, via a custom-built tablet application and wearable display interface. This proof of concept demonstrates the potential to improve the quality oflife for ALS patients – or any person with limited muscle and speech function– by giving them the ability to interact, communicate and issue commands without moving their body or using their voice. Get updates from Philips and the future of healthcare.
Wearable technologies meet digital innovations and smart consumer products
How it works
Philips teamed up with Accenture, a global management consulting, technology services andout sourcing company; Emotiv, a neuroengineering company, and Fjord, a service design consultancy that is part of Accenture Interactive; to connect and control Philips Hue Lighting, SmartTV and Lifeline Medical Alert Service products.
PLEASE NOTE: This is a proof of concept project to explore the potential of controlling Philips connected suite of products with Emotiv technologies. While the development work and reactions represented are real, this concept is not nor is it intended to be an available product.
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