Newly developed wearable mask allows vegetative patients to communicate by breathing (IMAGE)

Tsinghua University Press

Newly developed wearable mask allows vegetative patients to communicate by breathing

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A wearable mask that takes advantage of carbon nanotubes and triboelectricity should allow patients who have lost both the power of speech and physical movement to communicate with the outside world via Morse code merely by breathing.

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Nano Research

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