Helping Henry Local teens use robotics to give disabled man part of his life back From: Palo Alto Weekly - 08/22/2007 - page 19 By: Rotem Ben-Shachar On a bright afternoon in early August, Henry Evans' face lit up. In the bedroom of his Los Altos home, he demonstrated how - with only a slight movement of his head - he could do something he had not done for years: turn on his television. Evans nodded his head up and down until a small laser attached to his glasses pointed at a "grey box," or receiver, with a small computer inside that detected the laser and turned on the TV. Within a second, the sounds from one of the latest Disney Channel shows blared from the set. Evans tilted his head back, laughing so hard his wife, Jane, had to help him unhook his feet from his wheelchair. The device, known as the "laserfinger," has given Evans an independence that he has not had since 2002, when a stroke drastically changed the life of the then-healthy 40 year old. Read the entire article at: http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=5646