Emma Watch – The wearable that helps Parkinson's patients

Parkinson's disease is a disease that can make simple tasks like writing or drawing impossible. To date, there is no cure, but at Microsoft's Build conference, the company unveiled Emma Watch.

Emma Watch is a wearable unvented by a Microsoft researcher, Haiyan Zhang. Its goal: to help patients with this disease. Quick note: the watch bears this name in tribute to Emma Lawton, a person suffering from Parkinson's and who demonstrated during a report for the BBC, how technology could improve the condition of patients.

"It is important to listen to Emma tell us about her experience because it is one of the only ways to understand what is going on physiologically to get ideas from it. Says Haiyan Zhang. "She said she no longer felt the tremor because the vibrations of the device replaced the physical feeling of the tremor."

Haiyan Zhang's solution is indeed intelligent. In creating the Emma Watch, he imagined a small bracelet containing vibrating motors, like those of smartphones, which are supposed to distract the brain and try to control the limbs of the patient. The device’s flips prevent Emma Lawton’s brain from fighting with itself.

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In the BBC report, viewers could see that the device worked. Emma Lawton was able to write her own name. Suddenly, Haiyan Zhang has already started talking about his smart health smart health connected object to neurologists. Although there is no cure for Parkinson's disease, Emma Watch therefore seems to have the potential to simplify the lives of those affected and thus lead a better life.

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