At Augmental, we've designed a groundbreaking interface that harnesses the natural dexterity of our tongue to interact with the various computing devices we use in our daily lives. Our aim is to make technology more accessible and empowering for everyone, regardless of their background or physical ability.

We are committed to inclusivity and have worked closely with the disability community and industry experts to gain invaluable insights that have informed the development of our device. By collaborating with these groups, we have created a device that can be used by anyone, including those with severe hand impairments.

Our intraoral interface has the potential to become more than just an input device but a bi-directional human-computer interface. This makes it an ideal interface for wearable AR devices.

In addition to its interaction applications, our device could also function as a continuous health monitoring platform. Through its intimate connection with the body, in the future, it could measure biosignals that no other device can, and provide real-time, closed-loop drug delivery for precision medicine. Our ultimate goal is to miniaturize the device into an intelligent tooth, creating a seamless biotic-abiotic interface that can enable humans to do more, feel more, and be more.

As we onboarded new users, we found that our early tongue-tracking algorithms couldn't properly accommodate the variance in different tongue shapes and sizes. This is a common problem in artificial intelligence, where models are often trained on biased datasets that don't adequately represent certain populations. To address this challenge and better train our machine-learning models, we set out to create a diverse dataset that better represents tongue shapes and sizes belonging to people of different backgrounds, abilities, sizes, ages, genders, and ethnicities. Through this process, we've gained valuable insights into the needs and preferences of different users, which has helped us develop a more inclusive and user-friendly interface.

We've also learned the importance of timelines when working with real people. While we learn a lot from each new user, it takes time to extract meaningful data for our tongue datasets. To speed up this process, we developed our own "licking robot" using an old 3D printer, a stylus pen, and fake saliva. This has allowed us to generate many different tongue-movement datasets overnight rapidly.

We're proud to say that our device is already making a difference in the lives of people with quadriplegia, and we have received letters of support from spinal cord injury associations, including the largest one in the United States. We're also collaborating with the United Spinal Association's Tech Access Initiative, and we have established relationships with top rehabilitation centers around the world.

At Augmental, we believe that our MouthPad^ has the potential to transform the way we interact with technology. We're launching it in April and partnering with Wunderman-Thompson, a leading marketing agency, to develop our brand image, launch strategy, waitlist campaign, and submission to Cannes-Lions International Festival of Creativity. We're excited to see what the future holds for our device and the impact it can have on people's lives.

At Augmental, we've designed a groundbreaking interface that harnesses the natural dexterity of our tongue to interact with the various computing devices we use in our daily lives. Our aim is to make technology more accessible and empowering for everyone, regardless of their background or physical ability.

We are committed to inclusivity and have worked closely with the disability community and industry experts to gain invaluable insights that have informed the development of our device. By collaborating with these groups, we have created a device that can be used by anyone, including those with severe hand impairments.

Our intraoral interface has the potential to become more than just an input device but a bi-directional human-computer interface. This makes it an ideal interface for wearable AR devices.

In addition to its interaction applications, our device could also function as a continuous health monitoring platform. Through its intimate connection with the body, in the future, it could measure biosignals that no other device can, and provide real-time, closed-loop drug delivery for precision medicine. Our ultimate goal is to miniaturize the device into an intelligent tooth, creating a seamless biotic-abiotic interface that can enable humans to do more, feel more, and be more.

As we onboarded new users, we found that our early tongue-tracking algorithms couldn't properly accommodate the variance in different tongue shapes and sizes. This is a common problem in artificial intelligence, where models are often trained on biased datasets that don't adequately represent certain populations. To address this challenge and better train our machine-learning models, we set out to create a diverse dataset that better represents tongue shapes and sizes belonging to people of different backgrounds, abilities, sizes, ages, genders, and ethnicities. Through this process, we've gained valuable insights into the needs and preferences of different users, which has helped us develop a more inclusive and user-friendly interface.

We've also learned the importance of timelines when working with real people. While we learn a lot from each new user, it takes time to extract meaningful data for our tongue datasets. To speed up this process, we developed our own "licking robot" using an old 3D printer, a stylus pen, and fake saliva. This has allowed us to generate many different tongue-movement datasets overnight rapidly.

We're proud to say that our device is already making a difference in the lives of people with quadriplegia, and we have received letters of support from spinal cord injury associations, including the largest one in the United States. We're also collaborating with the United Spinal Association's Tech Access Initiative, and we have established relationships with top rehabilitation centers around the world.

At Augmental, we believe that our MouthPad^ has the potential to transform the way we interact with technology. We're launching it in April and partnering with Wunderman-Thompson, a leading marketing agency, to develop our brand image, launch strategy, waitlist campaign, and submission to Cannes-Lions International Festival of Creativity. We're excited to see what the future holds for our device and the impact it can have on people's lives, whoever they are, whatever they are doing, and wherever they go.