--- title: "Tongue-Controlled Bluetooth Mouse Lives Inside Your Mouth" description: "Augmental Technologies has invented a tongue-controlled Bluetooth mouse designed to be worn inside of a user's mouth. In a word: awesome." date: "2023-04-26" modified: "2023-04-26" authors: - name: "Maggie Harrison Dupré" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/mharrison" url: "https://futurism.com/neoscope/tongue-controlled-bluetooth-mouse" categories: - "Health & Medicine" - "Prosthetics and Devices" tags: - "accessibility" - "bluetooth" - "health" - "paraplegics" --- # Tongue-Controlled Bluetooth Mouse Lives Inside Your Mouth ![Augmental Technologies has invented a tongue-controlled Bluetooth mouse designed to be worn inside of a user's mouth. In a word: awesome.]() *\Image: Augmental Technologies\* From the department of extremely cool innovations, [design publication *Core77* reports]() that the San Francisco-based firm Augmental Technologies has invented a Bluetooth mouse designed to be worn inside a user's mouth. Per *Core77*, the device — which is essentially worn like a mouthguard — is dubbed the MouthPad, and was created as a means to help paraplegics better navigate their computers, smartphones, tablets, and other devices. The trackpad is tongue-sensitive, with right-clicks and left-clicks performed by a suck-in gesture and a tongue press, respectively. In short: it sounds pretty awesome, and may well prove to be a major tech accessibility win. "The MouthPad is a tongue-driven interface that controls your computer, smartphone, or tablet via Bluetooth. Virtually invisible to the world, but always available to you, it is positioned across the roof of your mouth to put all of the power of a conventional touchpad in the tip of your tongue," the company [writes on its website](). "Whether you're looking for a new way to unleash your creativity or seamlessly interact with your personal devices, the possibilities are infinite with the MouthPad." "Our goal," it continues, "is to provide everyone with more intuitive ways to interact with computing systems." Also per its site, the MouthPad is specifically designed to have a minimal impact on a user's speech — an important feature not only for anyone needing to speak to those around them, but for folks who might be relying on additional voice recognition software to navigate daily life as well. The product is currently in beta, for which potential users can now join a waitlist. Seriously, though, this could be a game-changer for paraplegic individuals, and anyone else unable to operate devices — which are integral to most folks' daily lives, and certainly the world at large — with their limbs. And it might even be a cool gadget for just about anyone to use. **More on accessibility:** [*Man Who Can Only Walk with Exoskeleton Plays Ping Pong Against King of Spain*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've reported extensively on the rise of AI as a cultural and business force shaping the media industry, and more broadly how those dynamics are changing how we all consume and share information and relate to one another. I'm also fascinated by public health policy and ethics, the role of emerging tech in politics and governance — and the powerful people and forces at those intersections — climate change, and the environment. My investigation on Sports Illustrated's use of AI-generated authors with fictional biographies won a 2024 Mirror Award for "Best Story on Media Coverage of Artificial Intelligence in Journalism and the Media" from Syracuse University's SI Newhouse School, I contributed to Niemen Lab's 2025 Predictions for Journalism series, and I've discussed my work for Futurism during appearances on NPR, CNN, the BBC, the CBC, and more. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania and attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where I played Division I field hockey for the Minutewomen as a midfielder. Since then, I've lived in New Orleans, Louisiana and Manhattan, New York. I spend my free time running, reading, perusing archival fashion, and searching for the world’s best negroni. I also have a debonair tuxedo cat, Westley, who's named after "The Princess Bride." ### Author social links [Bluesky]()