A thin magnetic keyboard and mouth-held pointer developed in Singapore promise to open the world of computers to the severely paralysed.
The upright device - about the size of a standard keyboard - looks like a curved plastic sheet with keys printed on it.
Mr Chua Chee Siong, a 20-year-old quadriplegic helping to test the keyboard, developed by staff and students at Singapore Polytechnic, held the pointer in his mouth and lightly touched the keys, which have magnetic switches implanted under the sheet.
"It's very good in the sense that you can actually move the mouse in the way that normal people move it," Mr Chua said during a demonstration today.
"There's nothing that you can't do, maybe except to [switch] off the power," he added.
The device will be on display at the Assistive Technology 2001 exhibition which opens in Singapore tomorrow.