Physical Rehab Device Built From Wii Balance Boards 30
An anonymous reader writes "Some students at Rice University were recently asked by Shriner's Hospital to build a rehabilitation tool that makes learning to walk entertaining and engaging. Teaching children with spina bifida, or cerebral palsy can be challenging but the game/balance board walkway helps the children develop their motor skills while giving them incentive to keep at it. It's a really cool application of game technology that actually helps people."
Re:Awesome! (Score:2, Interesting)
By the time you finish with all the certifications, verifications, classifications, insurance, qualification, etc. then you will have to charge $12,000 and be lucky to sell enough to break even.
And that's if you don't get sued if one malfunctions.
Bookmark this story (Score:4, Interesting)
Bookmark this story, folks. Any time you hear someone talking about "innovation," this is what actual innovation looks like. Both Nintendo, for inventing new forms of input devs, and the enterprising people that found a use for that input device that was not indicated by its makers.
Innovation is simple. Turning off one's preconceptions to get to that point is hard. Turning off the usual legal battles that generally inhibit it, even harder.