Engineers Develop A Glove That Alleviates Hand Tremors Caused by Parkinson’s Disease
Photo: GyroGloveOne in 500 people suffers from Parkinson’s disease. Faii Ong was a 23-year-old medical school student when he was assigned to take care of a 103-year-old woman with Parkinson’s. After watching her struggle to eat a bowl of soup, Ong made it his mission to find a way to alleviate hand tremors, a symptom of Parkinson’s. He found the solution to his mission in physics.
Ong, the founder of GyroGlove, told MIT Technology Review, “My idea was to use gyroscopes to instantaneously and proportionally resist a person’s hand movement, thereby dampening any tremors in the wearer’s hand.”