{"id":3312,"date":"2012-05-24T20:44:36","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T01:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3312"},"modified":"2012-05-25T18:23:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T23:23:53","slug":"hand-to-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3312","title":{"rendered":"Hand To Mouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While mind-controlled robotic arms are undeniably cool (and just a teensy bit ominous), some of us gimps may not want to go through the trouble of getting our skulls cracked just so we can re-enact scenes from <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0093692\/\">Over the Top<\/a><\/em>. But we still want to be able to feed ourselves the occasional snack while catching up on <em>Game of Thrones<\/em>. Luckily, there&#8217;s a robotic arm that does just that without requiring the installation of any internal hardware. A team of Northeastern University engineering students have developed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2012\/05\/24\/northeastern-university-students-develop-eye-controlled-robotic-arm-to-feed-patients\/\">iCRAFT<\/a>, or eye Con\u00adtrolled Robotic Arm Feeding Tech\u00adnology. The user simply gazes at a particular food choices on a screen and a robotic arm scoops up a mouthful of the desired selection and delivers it to the user&#8217;s mouth. \u00a0Here&#8217;s a video of the arm in action:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MlZDMYUcGXo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The iCRAFT&#8217;s serving sizes are a bit much for someone like me, but perhaps it could be programmed to feed me individual Junior Mints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While mind-controlled robotic arms are undeniably cool (and just a teensy bit ominous), some of us gimps may not want to go through the trouble of getting our skulls cracked just so we can re-enact scenes from Over the Top. But we still want to be able to feed ourselves the occasional snack while catching <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3312' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disability","category-tech","category-14-id","category-10-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-Rq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3312"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3317,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312\/revisions\/3317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}