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Pallette Startup Pitch
- 1. Pallette The world atthe tip of your tongue Rohit Jain (@rj_here)
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- 3. Imagine Have Not beingable to use phone
- 4. Imagine Have Not beingable to use phone 1 Million Quadriplegics
- 5. Imagine Have Not beingable to use phone 5 Million Mobility Impaired
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- 7. He’s paralyzed from theneck down.
- 8. He requires the helpof a caregiver
- 10. Individual costs of $180,000per year
- 11. We want tomake individual control private, discreet, and affordable.
- 12. pallette perspective top ofthe mouth
- 18. Bluetooth + Microcontroller+ Tiny = $8.00
- 19. We want tomake individual control private, discreet, and affordable.
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- 22. Community Validation Contextual Inquirywith quadriplegic community Local Hospitals and Nursing Facilities - ready to help beta test
- 23. Oliver Hoffman Joanna Zhang Rohit Jain DanLevine Shawn Bramson Shawn Oliver Joanna Rohit Dan
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Editor's Notes
- #2 Hi we’re team Pallette and we are providing greater independence to the mobility impaired.
- #4 Imagine your hands tied to a chair, your phone is right in front of you, it’s ringing, but you can’t reach out to answer [PAUSE] That’s the struggle that 1 million quadriplegics and 5 millions others with mobility impairments live with day to day in the United States Add popups 1 million and 5 million
- #5 Imagine your hands tied to a chair, your phone is right in front of you, it’s ringing, but you can’t reach out to answer [PAUSE] That’s the struggle that 1 million quadriplegics and 5 millions others with mobility impairments live with day to day in the United States Add popups 1 million and 5 million
- #6 Imagine your hands tied to a chair, your phone is right in front of you, it’s ringing, but you can’t reach out to answer [PAUSE] That’s the struggle that 1 million quadriplegics and 5 millions others with mobility impairments live with day to day in the United States Add popups 1 million and 5 million
- #7 This is Raoul, he is quadriplegic
- #8 he’s paralyzed from the neck down.
- #9 He requires constant attention from a caregiver for everything from eating and going to the bathroom, to reading his email and answering a phone call. // commented: Raoul is dependent on the caregiver to access the growing amount of technology and information around him
- #10 They are some assistive technologies out there that help them to work and play.
- #11 But all these technologies are expensive and obtrusive. All this leads to a cost of up to $180,000 a year for an individual.
- #12 We want to make individual control private, discreet, and affordable.
- #13 Our device, Pallette, fits discreetly in the mouth and lets Raoul independently perform the activities that matter the most to him, all with the use of his tongue.
- #14 So how does it work?
- #15 The caregiver puts the device in Raoul’s mouth where it fits like a retainer //, hence enabling the device to be unobtrusive.
- #16 Our device connects via Bluetooth to an app on the phone which serves as a hub and facilitates connections to other devices. The hub translates the tongue gestures into device commands, enabling the tongue to directly control these devices.
- #17 Raoul can now answer his phone, drive his wheelchair, and use any other internet connected devices.
- #18 With the surge of internet of things the landscape of devices that would be Pallette compatible are endless. The ability to control surrounding technology provides Raoul greater independence.
- #19 The rate of decrease in the size and cost of hardware has enabled us to build the device under $100!
- #20 We are giving quadriplegics greater independence by allowing them to use their tongue to control their surroundings.
- #21 Over the past year we have built a number of prototypes to validate our idea. From a simple mouse clicking application to
- #22 to controlling applications on a smartphone.
- #23 At present we are working on shrinking the size of the device as much possible and making interfaces to give total control of the phone. Some hospitals and nursing facilities have expressed strong interest in helping us test the device once we are ready. We continue having discussion with the quadriplegic community to make sure we are building the right product.
- #24 Our team of Computer Scientists, Electrical and Mechanical engineers have been building Pallette Our goal is to help provide greater independence to the mobility impaired
- #25 Pallette is helping provide greater independence to the mobility impaired By putting the world at the tip of your tongue