{"id":25366,"date":"2015-04-13T09:06:55","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T08:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/?p=25366"},"modified":"2026-01-22T13:50:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T12:50:42","slug":"parkinson-a-pencil-which-facilitates-hand-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/parkinson-a-pencil-which-facilitates-hand-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Parkinson: A pencil which facilitates hand writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

ARC, the vibrating pencil<\/strong> was designed by several English Students of Imperial College of London <\/strong>and Royal College of Art<\/strong>. At the beginning, this pencil was created with the objective to raise public awareness and understanding of the Parkinson’s disease. Ultimately, it seemed that this pencil could been a suitable solution for people suffering from Parkinson so they could handwrite.<\/p>\n

This pencil limits shakiness, tremors and writing difficulties.<\/p>\n

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A vibrating pencil for handwriting<\/h2>\n

\"a<\/a>People suffering from Parkinson are usually not able to write properly, due to shakiness. By making a test among patients, the inventors of ARC pencil have realised that the vibrations of the pencils actually helped them to have a better control of their writing.<\/p>\n

The way this pencil works is easy: vibrations produce stimulations of hand muscles, and so patients have a better control of their drawing.<\/p>\n

Following this discovery, researchers and inventors are struggling to find new ways of introducing vibrating motors in other daily-use objects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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