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EyeControl Launches On Indiegogo To Give ALS Patients Their Voice Back
ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease or MND) patients represent a subgroup of people with fully functional cognitive abilities who gradually lose their speech and the use of their upper limbs, and cannot communicate with their environment due to physical limitations. They need alternative ways to communicate but the devices…
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Stephen Hawking’s Speech System Made Open Source
A new speech system, created for famed physicist Professor Stephen Hawking, has been made available free and open source, creator Intel have announced. The project is called ACAT (Assistive Context Aware Toolkit) and has been in the making, through collaboration between Hawking and Intel, for the past three years. Hawking…
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Ice Bucket Challenge helps ALS Wikipedia Page Views Grow 18-fold
We’ve been covering quite a lot of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge recently – from Destiny’s Ghost taking up the call, to some very heart wrenching and moving videos. However, the question is quite often asked on social media by many – what is this actually doing for ALS awareness? Well, thanks to the…
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Man Critical After Insane Ice Bucket Challenge Stunt
The Ice Bucket Challenge has done a lot of great things this last few weeks, it has helped raise money for many charities around the world and inspired many people to do something good for others. Unfortunately for one man, things may not end so well, after an insane stunt…
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Homer Simpson Takes The Ice Bucket Challenge
It has been a busy few weeks for the ALS Association, they’ve gained over $30 million in donations and we’ve seen hundreds of videos from celebrities, video game characters and now cartoon characters as Homer Simpson takes the plunge! It’s an interesting change of pace for the challenges and it’s…
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Destiny’s Ghost Takes the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
While this isn’t the first video game character to take the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, it is the latest. Just one week after Digital Extremes Warframe took the spotlight, where their digital space soldiers nominated Master Chief, Borderlands Claptrap and Destiny’s Ghost we are now treated to the first nominee…
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Is Using ALS Ice Bucket Challenge in Advertising Going to Far?
We have all seen the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge videos. Some we have laughed at, on some we enjoyed seeing our not-so-liked person icing them selves down and others were just hilarious. And all that for a good cause, to raise awareness and bring in the donations. And it has…
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The One ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Everyone Should See
If you only watch one ALS Ice Bucket Challenge video, make it this one. The Photographer Anthony Carbajal not only joined the cause and accepted the challenge, he also made a hilarious take on it. The first 2 minutes of this 6 minutes video show him doing the actual challenge,…
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Charlie Sheen does the Ice Bucket Challenge and Its Brilliant
So another day and another “ALS Ice Bucket Challenge”, this time its Charlie sheen doing what he does best, Winning. We all know he doesn’t play by the rules and this is no exception. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qat9gR5nrpM[/youtube] It seems Charlie has decided to do something that the other celebs haven’t and put…
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Chris Pratt’s Take on the ‘Ice Bucket Challenge’ Is A Little Different
Chris Pratt who has starred in such films as Guardians of the Galaxy and The Lego Movie has done his “ALS Ice Bucket Challenge” and put his own little spin on it. He has done what I would like to think I would do in the circumstances and managed…
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Bill Gates Takes The ALC Ice Bucket Challenge, Nominates Three Others
A few days ago Mark Zuckerberg dumped a bucket of ice water on his head to raise awareness ALS awareness. Seems silly but a few days later an donations to the ALS Association are up 1000% percent! For those unaware of ALS, it is also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease.…
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Watch Mark Zuckerberg Dump Ice Water over Himself
Opinions are split when it comes to Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg, but I think we can all agree that this new trend is awesome. In the never-ending row of challenges extended on-line after daring them yourself, it’s now time to dump ice water over your own head. This isn’t just some…
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