Stroke Rehab Gloves
I can't explain in too much depth for this one since it is still ongoing research, but they said it was fine to use this picture and an excerpt from freethinkmedia.com.
"Georgia Tech researchers Thad Starner and Caitlyn Seim [along with the help of student engineers] have developed a pair of gloves with seemingly magical powers. They can teach someone to play the piano in an hour. They've taught blind people to read braille in four hours, a process that usually takes up to four months. The gloves work through a process called passive haptic learning. Basically they vibrate in ways that stimulate the correct movement in the user's hands. While the applications have been impressive so far, Thad and Caitlyn believe we're just scratching the surface. Most recently, they're exploring how the gloves can be used to restore movement in people that have suffered traumatic brain injuries. And the results are very promising."
You can watch a great video explaining the project and its history below.
The main idea behind this glove is using small vibrating motors to stimulate dormant and locked up muscle groups in patients who had lost motor control in one of their hands.
The circuit board on top is an Adafruit_L3GD20 connected to a ribbon cable that is connected to individual motors in the fingers.
For more in-depth research about this topic, you can read a research paper by Thad Starner himself here:
This was part of a research project I was working on with GVU.
