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Quadriplegic Earns Guinness Typing Record By Way of Mouth

Quadriplegic Earns Guinness Typing Record By Way of Mouth

Technology can amaze, inspire, and shock us all. In this story, though, technology helps one quadriplegic do all three. Hank Torres is paralyzed from the shoulders down, but that didn’t stop him from setting a new Guinness world record in “Fastest Hands-Free Typing.” The amazing thing, though, was that he did this with his mouth, along with the help of some amazing technology. By combining TrackerPro, a Sip-Puff mouth switch, and SWYPE on-screen keyboard on Windows 7, Mr. Torres completed a complicated sentence used to judge typing speed at an impressive 83.09 seconds. But don’t take our word…

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