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Mick Ebeling: The invention that unlocked a locked-in artist

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The nerve disease ALS left graffiti artist TEMPT paralyzed from head to toe, forced to communicate blink by blink. In a remarkable talk at TEDActive, entrepreneur Mick Ebeling shares how he and a team of collaborators built an open-source invention that gave the artist -- and gives others in his circumstance -- the means to make art again.

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TEDTalks, TEDActive 2011, TED, Talks, creativity, design, disease, invention, open-source, technology, 2011

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