Great Inspiration Story Of The Day:





 heldon Cooper, the theoretical physicist on the TV sitcom The Big Bang Theory, could never have imagined meeting his idol Stephen Hawking if the latter, arguably the greatest physicist alive, did not have access to the assistive technology that enables him to communicate, despite his almost total paralysis. Nor would the world have been able to experience the genius of Prof. Hawking firsthand.

Intel has been designing and sponsoring the computers that run Prof. Hawking’s assistive gadget since 1997.

Owing to motor neuron disease, which he was diagnosed with when he was 21, Prof. Hawking has steadily been paralysed from face below and has very little voluntary control, even on his face.

Today, at the age of 71, Prof. Hawking is entirely dependent on his assistive gadget for communication.

In the 1990s, Prof. Hawking was able to use his thumbs to control a joystick-like module to command the voice synthesiser and move his electronic wheelchair, but even that has eroded in the last four to five years. 

Currently, Stephen Hawking can ‘speak’ at the rate of just about one word per minute