The
Originals

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The Originals
have personal experience with Locked in Syndrome or severe disability such as functional quadriplegia.
They are part of a team which has tested NeuroSwitch and its prototypes since 2002.
They are highly motivated and focused in their demands for an effective AT switch.
They are in the USA, UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Asia.


Professor Stephen Hawking, FRS
- NeuroSwitch™ Original 001


Professor Hawking began Beta testing a prototype of NeuroSwitch™ in Cambridge in November 2002.  In March 2003, he arranged for the prototype to be loaded onto his powered wheelchair, a high-tech mobile work station that includes a custom-built Intel computer slab, telephony, flat screen display and an audio system that broadcasts his trademark synthesized voice.  The installation was done during Prof. Hawking's 2003 lecture tour of the USA at the Department of Physics at Texas A&M University. (see photo, right)

  Prof. Hawking first learned he had the motor neurone disease ALS (
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis - Lou Gehrig's disease) in 1963, when he was given only a few years to live.  It is a tribute to his invincible will and resolve that he has ignored that prediction, and has for more than

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