Salinas, CA Parkinson’s Caregivers Have Hope : Google Has Come Up With A Novel Device To Help With Essential Tremors
by Richard Kuehn on 12/08/14
Google has been working on a number of fascinating projects in the booming health care sector. The latest : reinvention of the spoon. Called spoogles, these spoons use hundreds of algorithms to enable people that have Parkinson’s disease and other conditions which cause essential tremors to eat easily with a spoon. In clinical trials, the Liftware spoons reduced shaking of the spoon bowl by an average of 76%. “We want to help people in their daily lives today and hopeful increase understanding of the disease in the long run,” Google spokesperson Katelin Jabbari told the Monterey Herald. Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s mother has Parkinson’s disease and we thank him for turning this bad situation into something positive via this invention and the more than $50 million he has given to charities looking for a Parkinson’s cure.