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Feels like falling: virtual balance; coming soon.(Brief article)
Byline: Karla Bruning
Bionic humans have come a step closer to reality. A new device can measure the motion of the head and send signals to an electrode implanted in the inner ear, providing patients who suffer from poor balance or blurry vision with an artificial vestibular system, the part of the inner ear that controls equilibrium, posture and visual focus while the body is in motion. Dan Merfeld, a biomedical engineer at the Harvard Medical School, who has tested the technology on ...
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