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Intel tries to help Stephen Hawking keep talking

Intel Corp. is trying to help physicist Stephen Hawking keep speaking.


Intel chief technology officer Justin Rattner told the Associated Press that the tech giant has a research team in Britain that is trying to come up with a new speech system for Hawking, who is severely diasabled by Lou Gehrig's disease. The goal is to keep Hawking's speech from continuing to slow.


It's a tedious process for Hawking to speak. A tiny infrared sensor translates movement in his right cheek into words spoken by a voice synthesizer. And now Hawking is losing the use of the nerves in that cheek.


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I love his quote from some of the work Intel had done for him in the past...

"I must be one of the most connected people in the world, and I can truly say, I'm Intel inside."
 
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It's a tedious process for Hawking to speak. A tiny infrared sensor translates movement in his right cheek into words spoken by a voice synthesizer. And now Hawking is losing the use of the nerves in that cheek.
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It sounds like a Twilight Zone nightmare--Hawking's intellect remains intact, his last fragile means of communication fails, and then he formulates the perfect mathematical equation that reveals the Meaning of Life.

God and His juvenile practical jokes...:shake:
 
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