Physicist Stephen Hawking has been reduced to blinking to control his helper computer.
Adriana: "I thought you might be interested in a post I wrote a while back about a former editor of Elle who communicated for the last year of his life via blinks".
This entry was published on September 07, 2005 at 10:30 am.
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