Gyenno has developed a spoon that helps people with tremors: it reduces hand tremor by 85%, allowing Parkinson’s patients to eat on their own.
Technology to help Parkinson’s patients. Japanese company Gyenno has designed, developed and produced a special anti-tremor cutlery that helps Parkinson’s patients eat independently. Gyenno – this is the name of the product – is an “intelligent spoon” (smart spoon) with very advanced technologies. Inside the cutlery there is an electronic chip similar to those present in the cameras for image stabilization. The chip is able to automatically distinguish between intentional and unintentional movements and is activated only in the event of unconscious tremors, compensating for the oscillation of the hand to stabilize the cutlery. In this way, the sick Parkinson’s user can return to eating normally, without the need for assistance during the meal: Gyenno is able to reduce the tremors by 85%. The device “mounts” a battery that guarantees several hours of autonomy.
How Gyenno, the spoon for Parkinson’s patients, works
In addition to stabilizing the cutlery, the chip inside Gyenno stores tremor data and uploads it to the cloud. In this way, the system automatically stores information and improves its performance based on the data collected. But that’s not all: the cloud can be consulted by the doctor or the family of Parkinson’s patient to monitor the progress of the disease and evaluate the effectiveness of the therapies adopted. The creators of the project – presented for the first time at CES 2016 in Las Vegas – explained that “the operation of the device is quite simple but it is very useful for those who suffer from tremors and wants to have a life as normal as possible, without being forced to ask for the help of relatives or other people to perform a daily action as trivial as eating. Technology must be useful to everyone, but it must be useful to everyone.