His "sip-and-puff" chair responds to four commands he delivers with his breath. But the commands aren't intuitive, and the straw that relays his orders needs regular cleaning and sits in front of ...

For patients who no longer have the use of their limbs and torso, life must be navigated through a powered wheelchair – which users often control by blowing into a plastic straw to execute basic ...

Veltman uses a method called Sip and Puff that allows people with disabilities to control various devices by inhaling and exhaling into a tube. Pairing Sip and Puff with a gun means the hunt can ...

wheelchair controller ... three times faster with the tongue system than with sip-and-puff, which six of the 11 (including Disanto) had been using. It was equally accurate. Using only tongue ...

Fanning requires full-time caretaking, but his wheelchair’s sip-and-puff mechanism can propel him. He also uses his mouth and homemade styluses for his phone and iPad in conjunction with a smart ...

He holds the world record for most miles traveled in 24 hours using a sip-and-puff wheelchair. The aftermath of the injury forced Mackay to reconsider his future, initially steering him away from ...

A spinal cord injury Mackay suffered at 26 in a bicycle crash in 2008 left him a quadriplegic. He controls his power wheelchair using a sip-and-puff device that sends signals to the chair using air ...

He holds the world record for most miles traveled in 24 hours using a sip-and-puff wheelchair. The aftermath of the injury forced Mackay to reconsider his future, initially steering him away from ...