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"solving epilepsy" is indeed in very bad taste.



Guh, this is truly terrible.

>CAN EPILERT PREDICT SEIZURES? >Epilert cannot predict or prevent seizures. >Our technology is designed to detect patterns that could be >associated only with motor seizures for now. However, we are >gathering EDA data to try building behavioral and emotional >profiles relative to non-motor seizures that will help >scientists better understand these types in the future.

>WHAT TYPES OF SEIZURES IS EPILERT DESIGNED TO DETECT? >Epilert Bracelet is made to detect motor seizures that can >be focal or generalized and could be tonic-clonic or from >another motor type.

So.... thanks for 'solving' the I-had-a-locomtor-seizure-and-I-guess-I've-fallen-and-can't-get-up-please help-me-problem. Thanks but not thanks; already have a toolbox of coping strategies for that. Call me back when you've got a 'solution' for: * please don't arrest me for public intoxication - I'll be better in 20minutes * here's a record of everything that happened 60minutes before and after an absence seizure (that this won't detect) 'cause I don't remember any of it * having a shitty day and I can't tell what you're feeling, what I'm feeling or how to feel about the meta. Please leave me alone but, well, don't fire me ok? * is this headache signalling a migraine or a seizure? They both suck but my best options are dramatically different

There are so many things that could be so much better with some unobtanium applied to this field... but detecting tonic clonic seizures is... underwhelming. This is no kind of solution but mightpossibly* be a tool in the toolbox; that's about it.




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