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Ordinarily, we associate mouthguards with sports such as boxing and football. An experimental new one, however, could allow people who lack the use of their hands to control electronic devices – and it would do so by tracking their bite patterns.
In the near future, people who have minimal hand function can have an easy way of manipulating devices such as wheelchairs, computers, and smartphones, by wearing a smart mouthguard that interprets complex bite patterns precisely and rapidly into instructions to regulate electronic devices.
A research team in Singapore has invented a smart mouthguard that translates bite patterns into instructions to control electronic devices.
The Digital Innovations and Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases in Africa project kicked off this month and will run through September 2027 with a budget of about €6 million.
Scientists have long looked to the brain as an inspiration for designing computing systems.