They make doorknobs larger and help them stay in your hand without slipping. A doctor, physical therapist, or occupational therapist might be able to help you find assistive devices within your ...

But before you employ any assistive device, be sure to use your own strength ... Getting dressed can be hard on your hands, but fortunately there are self-help devices to make the job easier ...

Companies are developing mobility aids and technologies including robotic exoskeletons, limbs, and communication tools.

Assistive devices can help older people cook ... a very affordable addition to the kitchen people will still need some hand strength to clamp the gripper on a container some reviewers state ...

The options for assistive devices range from simple tools like shoe horns and grab bars to high-tech tools like hands-free headsets and voice-activated software, all designed to help with daily tasks.

Samantha Johnson has been working on her design for a sign language finger-spelling robot for a few years, but on Thursday, ...

Apple Watch OS8 brings further hands free accessibility features to your Watch. Assistive Touch is an accessibility feature that detects hand gestures to control a cursor and navigate your Apple ...

An experimental device has been designed to help such folks lift cumbersome objects, by adding a robotic hand to the back of their dominant hand. If a person suffers a spinal cord injury between ...

In the Friday, May 30, edition of the Butler Eagle, we learned about a showcase of technology designed to help people with ...

College and high school students in Greater Cincinnati are using 3D printing to solve medical problems in the community. A group of biomedical engineering students at the University of Cincinnati ...

It affected my hands and the way I was traditionally ... her current project — which brings fashion's most fun trends to assistive medical devices — began to take shape.

Artificial muscles on either side of the forearm contract and relax to suppress the involuntary shaking of the wrist and hand ... test new ideas in assistive exoskeleton technology.