A Watch Fights Tremors And Woman Finds Ability To Write, Microsoft Reveals

A Microsoft researcher is turning head this week with proof that she was able to harness technology to help someone manage Parkinson's, which had left her with hand tremors making it impossible to write.

Now Emma Lawton can write again thanks to a prototype watch. More than 10 million people in the world live with Parkinson's; in the US alone, 60,000 are diagnosed each year. The gripping part is that there is no cure.

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