Electronics: Making Disability More Manageable

Technology has gone a very long way offering new advances and innovations to each and every one of us. Several industries have benefited greatly from modern technology improving the lives of people around them. The field of medical science in particular, has made several changes and improvements refining their service and practices along the way. Let us consider electronic devices and how they are making the lives of the disabled community easier in the present.

You will not be finding any shortage of electronic aids that are now available on the marketing. A lot of change has happened and this is quite apparent with today’s hearing aids when you compare them to the past. Billions of dollars are spent every year on research by the hearing aid manufacturers. Research scientists comprised of audiologists, physicians, electrical and sound engineers, and others work together to bring you the best hearing possible in the smallest space possible.

The more they learn, the better able they are to mimic what a normal functioning hearing system does through the use of highly sophisticated miniaturized computers that are found in today’s digital hearing instruments. As electronic components get smaller so do the hearing aids. The refinement being done with these hearing aids offer a huge amount of relief making more wearable than ever before.

There is also devices such as the super pacemaker wherein if the heart skips beats, pulses of energy are delivered to the heart wall. The ICD can sense the top chamber contracting and — if the lower chamber fails to respond — will send out pulses to the right lower chamber.

Travel times has also become a simpler task with the emergence of motorized wheelchair. This is a wheelchair that is propelled by means of an electric motor rather than manual power. Motorized wheelchairs are useful for those unable to propel a manual wheelchair or who may need to use a wheelchair for distances or over terrain which would be fatiguing in a manual wheelchair.

For those with sleep disorders, the nightingale smart home sleep system is currently being research to provide timely and effective solution to the problem. The Nightingale consists of two units that plug into the wall in a room. Each unit has two speakers. The separate units work in tandem to “blanket” the room with customizable sound that masks indoor and outdoor noises which might otherwise disturb your sleep.

Kids have also benefited greatly from modern technology. For instance, there exists an immersive virtual reality gaming helps kids with hemophilia get through infusions. At Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio children with hemophilia that have to undergo regular procedures involving needles, such as infusions, now have something better to look forward to. The hospital is now offering a virtual reality headset that runs a game specially designed to take kids’ attention away from scary and painful medical procedures. This in turn helps keep them busy as they are taking shots.

There is indeed a number of disability aids that are now available in the present which is good to hear. Patients should not feel reluctant in using these devices especially since careful research and planning is done in each and every one of them. Consider making good use of the electronic devices mentioned in this article today.

Current Trends Firing Devices

We live in a world full of electronic gadgets and devices. They may be small and slimline, but they are still fired by an electric current. Batteries are big business too, with new lithium batteries transforming industries left, right and centre. The electrical engineer, the computer engineer and designers are in the spotlight, as we salivate over the new IPhone 7 or Galaxy S7. Funny that Apple and Samsung seem to be keeping pace with each other in the model number stakes. Having the latest model seems to be the main aspiration that many adults and children have in their lives right now.

Current Trends Firing Devices

We are all plug mad, plugging our devices into sockets in walls, cars and anywhere else that will accept our pronged friends. You see people walking down the street whilst simultaneously staring into a small screen held in their hands. An alien visiting our cities would think these people bewitched by these glowing objects and that their souls had been captured by them. The alien might consider that these humans are being controlled by machines or by one super power beaming images and messages to them constantly. The alien would be right.

Strangely, few of us question the thrall that these devices have us all in. We are still herd animals, being electronically herded in particular directions by disembodied voices. Flickering pixels and bytes of data are our new bread and butter, our new meat and potatoes. They feature largely on our menus and we pay unquestioningly for the pleasure. Who are the masters then? The makers of these machines. They are technicians in the pay of moguls or by boards of corporate directors. Are these so called captains of commerce and industry our masters? Do they pull the strings to our puppet like existences?

Or, is it an unconscious trend, invisible memes that inhabit our brain waves and which cause our fascination with screens of every size and dimension. With the buzz of electricity and the batteries that store this charge. We are spell bound by images of ourselves on screens. Facebooks and blogs, Twitterverses and Instagrams, Googlespheres and whatever is the next digital megatrend. Current trends firing devices are dependent upon the body electric; and the matrix is powered by positive and negative forces surging through wires and synapses. Electricity and electrical inventions fascinate our brethren. To hold that mobile or cell phone in your hand and gaze into its welcoming screen is our benediction and our prayer.