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The Oral Mouse 

The already rapid evolution of hands free computing in the work situation, in virtual entertainment and in everyday life of commuting and transportation is accelerating.
On the market for disabled persons and handicap aid there is a fundamental need to control the computer, not until now possible to fully satisfy.
The first priority for the company is to present a working model on this handicap aid market.

In tele-medicine and in dentistry, hands free computing is hands free as long as you dont need the mouse or the touchpad.
In avionics, the quest for adequate and precisely timed information, is urgent.
Pilots are in stressed situations using eye tracking to direct the computer while steering the vehicle itself.
Conventional speech recognition is an other inconvenient way of controlling the computer in a stress situation - psychologically this is dangerous - the focus of action is disturbed.

The Oral Mouse makes it possible to keep focus on all sorts of manual tasks while the computer discreetly is maneuvered, beneficent to disabled as well as astronauts, pilots as well as doctors and engineers.

When you screen the websites of players on the hands free market you find the conventional mouse (in different shapes).
The Oral Mouse finally sets the hands free.

The tongue is the most precise and flexible muscle in the human body.
We have patented a method, using an ultrasonic device, to transform the intraoral movements of the tongue into movements of the cursor on the computer screen, to control the computers, in a first phase, with focus on handicap aid equpment.

Advantages and applications

Enables true  hands free access to the computer.

Mouse replacement for disabled persons and for people with "carpal tunnel syndrome".

Offer a ‘third hand’ to operate a computer in situations where the hands are needed for other tasks. This benefit professionals like dentists, surgeons, field technicians, pilots, car drivers,  soldiers, etc.

Fit the bill for being the pointing device of choice in an emerging market of wearable computers offering full desktop access in a mobile environment.

 

  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