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Doc Races Time and Disease to Build Assistive Tech

December 13, 2013 By Dan Rosenbaum

Crain's New York Business carries the compelling story of Dr. J.R. Rizzo, a doctor at NYU's Langone Medical Center. Rizzo's got a degenerative disease and he's losing his sight. His inventions, a sensor-equipped vest and a wheeled cane that improves on a device that hasn’t changed in almost a century, could help the visually impaired navigate the physical world: “There isn’t a … [Read more...]

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