Living with degenerative diseases is very disheartening and may get more challenging as time passes. One of the major challenges often associated with diseases like Parkinson's or Essential Tremor is not having the ability to control trembling hands which make everything difficult. People with tremors in many cases are uncomfortable and often embarrassed giving them reasons to isolate themselves from occasions or get-togethers especially when eating is involved.
In a report published in Fast Company, in order to bring back confidence in the affected individuals of the said incurable disease, a company called Lift Labs thought of a solution to this. Liftware, which can be used as spoon and fork, has a built-in motion sensor which are also used in smartphones.
Liftware can detect a tremor and regulate the spoon or fork correspondingly which lead to normal eating. In September 2014, the startup was acquired by, making it possible for the operations to spread out internationally.
Lift Labs ended up being a part of Google Life Science, the first new company established under the company's Alphabet umbrella.
The objective of Life Sciences is to develop to promote advanced technologies to make health care more proactive as per Sergey Brin, Google's cofounder. The company supervised by CEO Andy Conrad operates on innovations such as smart contact lenses designed to monitor the amount of blood sugar in the body and nanoparticles which can be used detect cancer.
The handheld device is among the unique gadgets developed by the group and since it had been already available for purchase before Google's possession, the company is starting to become associated with a number of new organizations to be certain that the gadget makes it way to those who need it. Liftware is much more affordable after the company drop the price from $295 to $195.
According to the CEO and Lift Labs founder, Anupam Pathak, the objective of Liftware is to reach out to as many people who suffers from tremor as well as to further promote the gift-giving practice.
Individuals that have actually experienced using the tool have informed the company precisely how life-changing the experience has been by means of letters. Walls at the company's office and factory in Fremont, California, are covered with thank-you notes from those who use the product.
Pathak claimed that the essence of the company's objective is to give hope to those who are affected of this chronic illness.
"I like to think of it as we're kind of part of a whole army of people who are working on helping the cure," he said.
