Helping Henry
Local teens use robotics to give disabled man part of his life back
From: Palo Alto Weekly - 08/22/2007 - page 19
By: Rotem Ben-Shachar 

On a bright afternoon in early August, Henry Evans' face lit up. In the
bedroom of his Los Altos home, he demonstrated how - with only a slight
movement of his head - he could do something he had not done for years: turn
on his television. 

Evans nodded his head up and down until a small laser attached to his glasses
pointed at a "grey box," or receiver, with a small computer inside that
detected the laser and turned on the TV. Within a second, the sounds from one
of the latest Disney Channel shows blared from the set. Evans tilted his head
back, laughing so hard his wife, Jane, had to help him unhook his feet from
his wheelchair. 

The device, known as the "laserfinger," has given Evans an independence that
he has not had since 2002, when a stroke drastically changed the life of the
then-healthy 40 year old. 

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