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Italian artist and designer Leonardo da Vinci did dissect and draw the larynx-pharynx five hundred years ago. By then it was a crime to make a scientific exploration of the dead human body.
But Leonardo secretly began the investigation of the human inside  At the same time astronomers began studying the entire cosmos with scientific methods and with the new optical instruments of Galileo and the mathematics of Copernicus -  the quest for knowledge was on
That is a quest that goes on as long as the human civilization is alive. It only pauses in times when humanity is subjected to laws forbidding the evolution of knowledge, as in old Egypt, and much later in Europe during the heavy pressure of the Monoteism. 
Scholars of the right kind had "once and for all" decided: 
There are several spheres covering the Earth and the stars are small openings, letting the heavenly light shine down on the flat Earth at night.
If a craftsman stood up and explained that "this is a absurd idea - the Earth must be as round as the Moon and the Sun and already the old Greek knew this, fanatic cardinals only are not able to see that the Earth is like a giant ball, probably rotating around the Sun"; certain people could accuse the craftsman of heresy,  and rather often the fires were lit. 
During the Renaissance the most insistent Copernicans were burned at the stake- the most well known of whom was Giordano Bruno. 

With the French Revolution came the Scientific Revolution - the race for new materialistic knowledge - the geographical explorations - new frontiers - both outward and inward. Scholars of the western world suddenly jumped over years of theological studies and preparations and went directly for natural studies - the ultimate exploration of the Universe. One of the scholars was Carl von Linné - combining practical observation of nature with intellectual analysis. An other of these pioneers was Charles Darwin.

A few centuries elapsed, electricity and radio communication was discovered during the last one and with the computer technology of the new millennium the human possibilities are unlimited - as long as you practically can handle the communication devices and the computerized digital aggregation of knowledge. 

To make life more convenient in this respect Scandinavian dentists and computer engineers have invented a method to scan the larynx-pharynx region, with an external ultra sound sensor, to enable true hands free computing with the Oral Mouse as a complete replacement of the standard computer mouse.

The visions of Xytech AB add themselves to a long row of small and great inventions, since the days of Leonardo da Vinci, simply enabling better control of the environment.

Xytech AB presents the Oral Mouse and in combination with speech recognition the Speech Mouse will take computer accessibility to a revolutionary new level of freedom and present unheard of possibilities for discreet communication and computer access for disabled persons.


                                            Leonardo da Vinci draws the Larynx

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  Patent

The Oral Mouse
Application submitted 2001-03-15 Swedish patent: C2 519 254, granted 2003-02-04.
USPTO granted 2007-15-06.
EPO Pending.
PCT/SE02/00449