Ontario teen invents tongue-controlled mouse for physically disabled
TORONTO — An Ontario teen is earning high praise for designing a device to help people with severe physical disabilities navigate computers easily and affordably — with their tongue.
Emma Mogus’s invention, the Tongue-Interface-Communication project (TiC), consists of a sports mouthguard equipped with five buttons that can be pressed with the tongue.
The mouthguard is connected by ethernet cable to a circuit board which, in turn, plugs into a computer with a USB cord.
With some computer programming, the TiC can be used like a regular mouse, directing the cursor up, down, left or right and click on icons.