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Modded Xbox rehabs stroke victims


How many stroke victims did the PS2 rehabilitate this week?:

Engineers at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, have modified a popular home video game system to assist stroke patients with hand exercises, producing a technology costing less than $600 that may one day rival systems 10 times as expensive.

...Rutgers' low-cost hand rehabilitation system is based on the commercially available Microsoft Xbox video game and Essential Reality P5 gaming glove that detects finger and wrist motions to manipulate on-screen images. The engineers made minor modifications to the equipment and created software that delivers two types of finger flexing exercises needed to help recover hand functions in stroke patients.

We should take up a collection of old Xboxes from people upgrading to 360 and donate them to this program.

Xbox fanboys healing the sick. It's what we do.