All Articles Tagged Als

Julie Jacobson | 03/06 07:12 AM, 2 Comments

A friend in the industry tells me of a home-control system he installed for an individual in the early stages of ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). Naturally, it reminded me of the story we did last year on the amazing ways technology is helping 20 Boston-area residents in the late stages of ALS and MS. In the most recent case, the integrator wished the client would have recorded his voice when he still had it, in preparation for text-to-speech. “Things move so fast,” he says. “I got involved when he [the… View this story

Julie Jacobson | 10/18 07:51 AM, 4 Comments

Steve Saling escorts me to the house he shares with nine other people, chatting along the way, as he takes me up the elevator and through the motorized front doors of his pad. He shows off the entertainment system in his bedroom, streams some Pandora radio through the in-wall speakers, and adjusts the lights, shades and thermostat just so. His home automation system is pretty typical, but Saling is not: He has ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Like most of his housemates, Saling has no… View this story