Possum

A device using electronic switches which helps a person who is severely paralysed to work a machine such as a telephone.


A device that enables severely paralyzed patients to use typewriters, adding machines, telephones, and a wide variety of other machines. Modem Possums are operated by micro-switches that require only the slightest movement in any limb. The original device worked by blowing and sucking a mouthpiece. The name derives from Patient-Operated Selector Mechanism (POSM).


A device that permits a person with a disability to control and operate various machines such as
switches, telephones, and typewriters by breathing into the master control of the apparatus.


 


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